Debassoco to The Citizen, February 6, 1868

No. 9.

The treasurer general has transcribed to Mr. Miguel Buch the supreme order of the 1st instant, relative to the delivery of the funds of the Spanish convention.

As the said supreme order has been published in the “Diario Oficial,” and in it it is stated that immediaiely that the agents manifest their conformity for the delivery of the funds he will proceed to hold the auctions, we fear that the Spanish government and our constituents may believe that we have not fulfilled the duty imposed upon us by the trust which we have accepted.

That circumstance obliges us to reproduce the expositions in which we have sustained the subsistence of the Spanish convention, and endeavored to convince the supreme government that the fund which exists in the agency belongs, in full dominion, to the creditors who have received it, by means of their attorney, in part payment of interest due for nearly eight years.

For the same reasons it is proper for us to reproduce, also, the solemn protest which we made in the second memorial, dated the 4th of January last, that we had not been, and that we are not, conformable to the delivery of the fund, and that, if the committee submits to the disposition of the supreme government, it is under compulsion and the pressure of the several orders they have received, and in all cases holding in reserve the rights which they represent.

In order to cover at all times our responsibility, we beg that you will be pleased to direct that there be issued to us, from the department under your worthy charge, certified copies of the present and of our previous expositions.

We also beg that you will be pleased to direct that the said expositions be published, in order that in the publication that has been made the documents may appear complete.

Wherefore we beg that you will accede to our petition, in which we will receive justice.