Letter

No. 7., February 11

No. 7.

To the Collector of the Maritime Custom-house at Vera Cruz:

The auction of the sum of ninety thousand dollars, in favor of the bonds of the extinguished English and Spanish conventions, has just take place. Forty-eight thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars was adjudicated for the bonds of the first, at twenty-eight and seven-eighths, and at twenty-nine per cent., and $41,385 for those of the second, at thirteen, and thirteen and one-eighth per cent.

I inform you on account of the importance that it is to the commerce to know the result of these auctions, to whom you will communicate the same, also sending this notice abroad.

Day after to-morrow an auction will take place for the interior debt.

ROMERO.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortiet View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortiet.