Bureau of the Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies., May the 13th, 1865
Bureau of the Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies.
Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor of transmitting to your excellency, for your information, the enclosed copy of the motion presented in this chamber by one of its members, and voted unanimously on the occasion of communicating to the house the note from the legation of the United States of America at this court, in reply to the manifestation of feeling and regret addressed to said legation on the atrocious assassination of the President of that republic.
May God preserve your excellency.
His Excellency the Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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I move that it be recorded in the minutes that the chamber has heard with every demonstration of true respect and profound sympathy the note which has just been read at the table, and addressed to the house by the minister resident of the United States of America at this court.
I further move that the government be informed of this deliberation, in order to communicate the same to the distinguished minister, Jacintho Augusto de Sant’Anna e Vasconcellos.
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