Joao de Andrade Corvo to Benjamin Moran, March 13, 1876

Mr. Corvo to Mr. Moran.

ministry of foreign affairs—political department.

I have had the honor to receive the note which your excellency addressed to me, dated the 9th instant, informing me that you forwarded to your Government a copy and translation of my note, dated the 1st of last January, with reference to the act of April 29, 1875, which abolished slavery in all the ultramarine provinces of Portugal; in which letter your excellency, acquainting me with the congratulations of the President of the United States of America on the happy results which must ensue from such important provisions for the prosperity of the same possessions, congratulates me on promulgation of the new law which at once abolishes slavery in the province of St. Thomé and Principe.

Thanking your excellency for the expressions employed by you in my favor in the note to which I allude; and for which I am so deeply indebted, I beg to inform your excellency that I shall not fail to acquaint the minister of marine with its contents.

I avail myself of this occasion to renew to your excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.