“mariano Roca de Togores.” to And by order of His Majesty I communicate it to your excellency for your cognizance, January 9, 1875

Royal decree appointing a ministry.

[From the “Gaceta de Madrid,” January 10, 1875.]

Royal decree.

The Minister of Marine to the President of the Regency-Ministry, Madrid:

His Majesty has deigned to issue the following royal decree:

“Having happily arrived upon the territory of my country, and after giving thanks to the Divine Providence for the visible protection accorded to me and also to the people and the sea and land forces for the constant adhesion and the enthusiastic affection they show j exercising the prerogatives which, as constitutional King, pertain to me—

“I hereby nominate president of my council of ministers Don Antonio Canovas del Castillo; and minister of state, Don Alejandro Castro; of grace and justice, D. Francisco de Cárdenas; of war, Don Joaquin Jovellar; of finance, Don Pedro Salaverria: of marine, Don Mariano Roca de Togores, Marques de Molins; of gohernacion, Don Francisco Romero Robledo; of fomento, Don Manuel de Orovio, Marques de Orovio; and of ultramar, Don Adelardo Lopez de Ayala, who shall continue exercising, as hitherto, their respective attributions during my absence from the capital of the Kingdom, while I visit, as I propose, the armies of the center and of the north. Given in Barcelona, the 9th of January, 1875.

Rubricated by the royal hand.

The minister of marine—