Cialdini to The Junta of the Valencia Canton, July 24, 1873

No. 3.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the polite communication you were pleased to send me, under date of yesterday, through your president.

I observe with satisfaction the good desires which animate the junta to sustain social order, in order that the interests of none of the inhabitants of this canton shall suffer in the least degree.

I avail myself of this occasion to state to the junta that the consular body of this capital has appointed a committee of its own members, composed of the representatives of France, Germany, England, the United States of America, and Italy, of which I am chairman, and whose mission is to represent that body in all its official acts, and consequently the junta will be pleased to regard this reply as made in the name and stead of all the consuls accredited to this capital, to each of whom your circular is addressed.