Letter

CALEB CUSHING, Minister of the United States to North American citizens by the commission of arbitrators in Washington, showing, up to the sixteenth day of March, 1877, the one-half payable in cash in conformity with the resolution of the ministers, of the 6th, and in fulfillment of the accord of the 22nd of the same month, March 28, 1877

[Inclosure F in No. 1211.—Translation.]

Calculated table of capitals and interests awarded as indemnification to North American citizens by the commission of arbitrators in Washington, showing, up to the sixteenth day of March, 1877, the one-half payable in cash in conformity with the resolution of the ministers, of the 6th, and in fulfillment of the accord of the 22nd of the same month.

Number of claim. Name of claimant. Date of award. Terms of interest. Time of interest. Amount awarded. Half of the amount awarded. Interest on half of the award. Total of one-half of award with the interests. Equivalent in storing at $4.86.65
Years. Months. Days. £. s. d.
1 Henry Story Jan. 4, 1874 None $1.200 00 $600 00 $600 00 123 5 10
4 Peter Moliere Nov. 2, 1875 Six per cent., September 1, 1870, to payment. 6 6 15 3,000 00 1,500 00 $588 70 2,088 70 429 4
5 James M. Edwards Dec. 20, 1875 None 5,000 00 2,500 00 2,500 00 513 14 4
13 Joaquin G. de Angarica Nov. 2, 1875 Six per cent., November 1, 1875, to payment. 1 4 15 748,180 00 374,090 00 30,849 62 404,939 62 83,209 12 5
14 Gideon Lowe & Co Dec. 12, 1874 Six per cent., January 10, 1869, to December 12, 1874 5 11 2 175 00 87 50 31 10 118 60 24 7 5
23 José Vicente Brito Nov. 14, 1874 Six per cent., February 12, 1869, to November 14, 1874. 5 9 2 600 00 300 00 103 60 403 60 82 18 8
31 Joaquin M. Delgado Feb. 27, 1875 Eight per cent., May 5, 1869, to February 24, 1875. 5 9 19 113,360 00 56,680 00 26,308 84 82,988 84 17,053 1 8
41 José de Jesus H. y Macias June 26, 1875 None 3,000 00 1,500 00 1,500 00 308 4 7
66 Gonzalo Poey Apr. 8, 1876 Six per cent. October 16, 1872, to payment. 4 5 313 75 156 87½ 41 57 198 44½ 40 15 7
87 Joseph Griffen Apr. 10, 1875 None 500 00 250 00 250 00 51 7 5
108 Charles Jemot Apr. 8, 1876 Six per cent., December 4, 1869. to payment. 7 3 11 5,000 00 2,500 00 1,092 02 3,592 02 738 2 3
Total 880,328 75 440,164 37½ 59,015 45 499,179 82½ 102,574, 14 2

As representative of the United States of North America, accredited near the Government of his Catholic Majesty, I declare that I have this day received the sum of one hundred and two thousand five hundred and seventy-four pounds sterling fourteen shillings and two pence in a bill upon London, at fifteen days’ sight, to the charge of the London Banking Association, of date 27th instant, acknowledging myself satisfied in the name of the government of my nation by the first installment of the indemnification declared up to the present time by the arbitrators, without prejudice to making the correction, on effecting the payment of the second installment, if the interests set down in the foregoing calculation to the credit of Gonzalo Poey, designated by the number 66, and of Charles Jemot, No. 108, be greater or less than the six per cent, calculated therein, as likewise to the inclusion in the payment of the second installment, the interest accrued from the 16th of the current month, referred to in this calculation, made up to the present time.

CALEB CUSHING,
Minister of the United States.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.