Miguel Buch, Agent to The Treasurer General, February 6, 1868

No. 10.

In reply to your official note dated the 3d, in which you insert the supreme order of the 1st instant, relative to the delivery of the funds belonging to the creditors under the Spanish convention, I have to make known to you that the said funds are at your disposal, but not because there is a conformity to their delivery, as not only the permanent committee but the agency have protested before the supreme government that if the delivery is made it is only under the pressure and compulsion of the supreme orders that they have received.

The net sum which exists in my possession, deducting a trifling charge prior to the note of the 21st of last October, is $33,984 86, and I have to request that in disposing of the same you will do so in one sum, as for special, reasons it will not be possible for me to make the several payments to which you refer