Bassoco to The Citizen, December 24, 1867

No. 4.

Citizen Minister: At 12 o’clock to-day has been delivered to us the supreme order you have been pleased to address to us under date of the 21st instant, requiring of us that the agency of the Spanish convention deliver into the general treasury the $34,184 86, now on hand in cash and in drafts.

As such disposition is of grave importance to our constituents, we have not the authority to decide in the case, and it is indispensable to convoke a general meeting of the parties interested, in order to inform them of the said supreme order.

We therefore pray you to be pleased to suspend the execution of the said disposition, in order to afford us a proper time to call and hold a meeting of the creditors, as is our duty.

In the same we will receive favor and justice.

Mexico, December 24, 1867.