De Mosquera to Bernado E spinoza , Secretary of Finance and Public works, August 17, 1866

[Translation.]

Decree declaring what foreign vessels are subject to the payment of tonnage and which are not subject to the same.

T. C. DE MOSQUERA, GREAT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA,

By virtue of my constitutional powers, and considering, 1. That it duly appears in the executive power that the government of her Britannic Majesty has deemed at an end the postal connection between Colombia and Great Britain; 2. That by that act the privileges conceded by said convention are also ended; I decree:

Article 1. The vessels of those nations with which postal conventions do not exist will be subject to the payment of tonnage duties and to deliver their mail bags to the proper post offices, without which said mail bags cannot be forwarded for their destination.

Art. 2. The vessels of the French St. Nazaire line, of the nations with which postal treaties exist or a special treaty guaranteeing the isthmus, shall enjoy the privileges granted by said treaties.

Let this be communicated to whom it may concern.