Letter

[Translated from El Registro Oficial, No. 802.], November 18, 1866.

Author

José Maria Rojas Garrido

Date

November 18, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Translated from El Registro Oficial, No. 802.]

Note of the Secretary of the Interior and Foreign Relations to the government of the State of Panama upon neutrality.

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA—SECRETARYSHIP OF THE INTERIOR AND FOREIGN RELATIONS—NUMBER 41, SECTION 2—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Bogota, November 18, 1866.

Señor Secretary of State of the government of the sovereign State of Panama:

The President of the Union has learned that there are some rifled cannon and various other elements of war in that State on their way to Peru, and as the transit of said elements over the isthmus is contrary to the neutrality of Colombia in the existing war between the Pacific republics and Spain, and which the government of the State has so many times been notified to strictly observe, the government orders that you immediately take possession of said cannon and place them in the possession of the commander of the national park in Panama, and also any other elements of war that may pass the isthmus, destined for either of the belligerents.

Your attentive servant,

JOSÉ MARIA ROJAS GARRIDO.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty 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 Second Session of the Thirty.