Romero to The Citizen Treasurer General of the Nation, February 8, 1868

No. 5.

Department of Treasury and Public Credit.–Section 1.

There has been received in this department your official note of this date, No. 48, in which you request that this department shall ask from that of foreign relations, and remit to the treasury, the marginal record which remains there of the bonds, which were placed in circulation under the extinguished English and Spanish conventions, in order to distinguish the legitimate from the illegal; and you inquire whether, in the auction of said bonds, which is ordered for the 10th instant, there shall be considered only the value of the capital which they represent, or if the interest shall be capitalized, and up to what date this shall be calculated.

I have to-day asked from the department of foreign relations the marginal records you desire, and immediately that they are received they will be sent to the treasury.

With respect to the inquiries that you make, I have to state that the President directs that the unpaid interest on the bonds sold shall be capitalized, computing the same up to the date of the auction.