Barron, Forbes & Co to The Treasurer General M. P. Izaguirre, February 4, 1868

No. 8.

Sir: By your communication of the 3d instant we are informed that, by virtue of the order of the minister of the treasury, which you insert, we have to make the delivery of the funds of the English convention, be the same in money or in drafts, as likewise the accounts of the convention.

From the literal tenor of the order it appears that our conformity has to be manifested, and that “it will not be necessary that the material delivery of the funds should take place, as once that the manifestation is made by the depositories of their being disposed to deliver them, they can remain in their possession.”

But as, notwithstanding these terminant dispositions, your office understands that we are to proceed with the delivery, we have respectfully to indicate to you that, as determined in the meeting of the creditors, the owners of these funds consider themselves prejudiced by the delivery referred to, and they have instructed us to make it in their name only under the unavoidable necessity of obeying orders which the government of the republic has not been pleased to revoke, notwithstanding our repeated solicitations.

We have the honor to be your bedient servants,