Hazeon has already been repaid, and that the sum of 4,453 dollars is required to liquidate the whole amount, the Undersigned consents that the said sum of 4,453 dollars shall be paid into the hands of Her Majesty's Consul at Vera Cruz within one month from the 1st day of the present month of February, in lieu of the 10,000 dollars specified in the said note of the 24th January; the said sum of 4,453 dollars not to be deducted from the 8 per cent. set apart for the payment of the British arrears. Señor Zamora. The Undersigned, &c. HUGH DUNLOP. No. 4.-Señor Zamora to Captain Dunlop, R.N. (Translation.) Vera Cruz, February 7, 1859. THE Undersigned, Constitutional Governor of Vera Cruz, authorized by his Excellency the Constitutional President ad interim of the Mexican Republic to act as the channel of communication between his Excellency and Captain Dunlop, in command of the British naval force in the Gulf, in the negotiation now set on foot for the discussion of the claims presented on behalf of British subjects by the Government of His Majesty, has the satisfaction of stating to Captain Dunlop himself, in reply to his courteous note of the 2nd instant, that, with reference to the points discussed and conceded in the various communications which have passed on this subject, he agrees, in the name of his Excellency the President aforesaid, to the following stipulations; his Excellency being bound to fulfil and maintain the same, and this assurance the Undersigned, in his quality of the mouth-piece of his Excellency, solemnly gives : 1. The Custom-House of this port shall make out and deliver to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, in compliance with the order to that effect which has been issued to it, an exact account of the British Convention assignments for the year 1858. 2. The Custom-House of this port, as well as the other CustomHouses under the direction of the Constitutional Government, having its seat at present in Vera Cruz, shall make out and deliver to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at that port, or to persons authorized by him, monthly statements of the entries made in the said offices. 3. The British creditors' assignments shall be paid punctually and in full, the Constitutional Government having taken measures to carry out this obligation with the most entire good faith. 4. Besides the payment of the 16 per cent. due to the English Convention, and of the 25 per cent. belonging to holders of Mexican bonds in London, there shall be now set apart 8 per cent. of the Custom-House dues on foreign vessels (with the exception of French vessels, which are already very heavily taxed for the pay ment of arrears of interest, and for the sinking fund of the British Convention. 5. As soon as the arrears due on the French Convention have been paid off, as well as the credits pending on account of orders for payment made out in favour of French subjects up to the 17th of December, 1857, and whatever sum may be agreed upon as indemnification for French subjects by the arbitrators who are shortly to meet, in accordance with the stipulation made on this head by Rear-Admiral Pénaud, all which amounts are to be met by another 8 per. cent. on the import duties (French vessels being, as before, exempted from their payment), the new assignment treated of in the preceding stipulation for the settlement of the arrears of the British Convention shall be raised to 10 per cent. ; it being, however, understood that in this assignment French vessels are not to be made to pay. 6. As soon as the French Convention Debt has once been wholly paid off, the 10 per cent. on the import duties above mentioned shall be set aside for the payment of the arrears on the Convention of Great Britain, and in this case the dues paid by French vessels shall be allotted to the purpose. 7. The amount now due to the holders of Mexican bonds in London, and which was left unpaid in September last, shall be paid. 8. The Government of Vera Cruz will continue using every effort to enforce the payment of the British assignments by the Custom-House of Tampico, and should it not make that payment, as the Tampico Custom-House is under the orders of its own Government, the payment shall be made in this place. 9. The sum of 4,453 dollars, still owing on the whole amount exacted at Tampico from Messrs. Jolly and Hazeon, shall be paid, and this payment shall be made within one month from the 1st instant into the hands of Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at this port, unless it should have been previously made in Tampico. This sum shall not be deducted from the 8 per cent. mentioned in the 4th stipulation. 10. Should his Excellency the Constitutional President ad interim of the Republic come into possession of the capital, as his right to do so and the wish of a majority of the nation leads us to hope, he will maintain, as appears to him just, the stipulations to which he has now agreed; but he declares that, with regard to those stipulations ever serving as the base of a future diplomatic Convention, he thinks it proper to reserve to himself, and does in fact reserve, the natural right, should such negotiations be regularly and duly instituted, of discussing the nature of any such Convention. Explanatory Note.-In these stipulations no credit is taken for the points referred to in Articles VI, IX, X, and XI of the note addressed by the Undersigned to the Commander of Her Britannic Majesty's Naval Force on the 28th of January last, viz. : ART. VI. For annulling the Decrees of this Government of January 15 and March 15, 1858, and leaving in force, in all its points, the Frontier and Maritime Custom-House Tariff issued in 1856. IX. For the publication of a circular censuring his Excellency General Garza, of Tampico, for his conduct towards British subjects. X. For the salute which is about to be given in Tampico to the British flag. And XI. For the payment of 2,500 dollars as indemnification to Mr. Hazeon for the outrages out of which his claim resulted;—as the decisions come to upon these points have been satisfactorily put into execution by mutual consent, and may now be considered as terminated. Captain Dunlop. MANUEL G. ZAMORA. No. 5.-Captain Dunlop, R.N. to Señor Zamora. Tartar, off Sacrificios, February 8, 1859. THE Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of his Excellency Don Manuel Gutierrez Zamora's note of the 7th instant, in which his Excellency, in the name of the party now in possession of Vera Cruz, agrees to and undertakes to carry into effect the Articles contained in the note addressed by the Undersigned to his Excellency of the 24th of January, with the modification of Articles I and V of the said note, as agreed to by the Undersigned in his supplementary note of the 2nd of February. The Undersigned has the honour to call his Excellency's attention to an omission in Article I of the note of the 7th instant, viz., that the account of the British Convention assignments for the year 1858 is to be rendered to her Majesty's Consul within the specified period of 15 days. As the Undersigned believes that this omission was accidental, in calling his Excellency's attention to it, he hopes that he has done enough to ensure that the account will be sent to Her Majesty's Consul without delay. The Undersigned has much satisfaction in acquainting his Excellency that, as soon as he receives the report of the commander of the ship he has sent to Tampico, that the salute to the British flag has been duly rendered, the Undersigned will consider that there only remains the execution of those Articles that have not already been carried into effect, to terminate the question between Her Majesty's Government and the party now in possession of Vera Cruz. In consequence of his Excellency's having used the term "Constitutional President of the Republic of Mexico," in the note which the Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge, the Undersigned feels it incumbent on him to remind his Excellency that, in the correspondence which he has had the honour to hold with his Excellency, the Undersigned has never acknowledged, nor does he now acknowledge, any such person, and he addresses himself to his Excellency as one of a party which is in possession of Vera Cruz and certain other seaports. The Undersigned, &c. Señor Zamora. HUGH DUNLOP. No. 6.-Terms agreed upon between Captain Aldham, R.N., and MEMORANDUM of the terms which the Undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, invites Captain W. C. Aldham to propose to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, for the purpose of terminating the difficulties which have arisen in consequence of the infraction of the Dunlop Convention at the ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico : 1. An additional 10 per cent. on all import duties, from all vessels, shall be assigned at the Custom-Houses of Vera Cruz and Tampico, to repay the sums withheld in both ports during the present year; and when these sums are paid up, the said new assignment of 10 per cent. shall cease, and return to the National Treasury. 2. The payment of the assignments shall commence on the 1st of January, 1861, excepting that of the new 10 per cent., which shall not commence until the 1st February, by which time the Sea Custom-House of this port shall furnish Her Majesty's Consul with a complete and exact statement of the sums unpaid by it during the whole of the present year. A similar specific and exact statement shall be furnished to Her Majesty's Consul by the Custom-House of Tampico, in the whole month of January next, of the sums of the same kind which the said Custom-House shall have kept unpaid during the whole year. 3. The Government engages solemnly not to tolerate in future the violation of the present or the Dunlop Convention, and to remove from office any officer or public employé appertaining to or dependent on it who shall again attempt to infringe the present arrangement, or that of Captain Dunlop; and with regard to those functionaries whose removal or punishment does not depend on the Federal power, the Government engages to urge the necessary measures for their punishment upon the tribunals empowered to take cognizance of their acts. W. CORNWALLIS ALDHAM. DECREE of the Buenos-Ayrean Government, respecting the Navigation of the Internal Waters of the Argentine Confederation.-Buenos Ayres, August 28, 1852. (Translation.) The Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation. THE Resolution of the 31st of May agreed to at San Nicolas de los Arroyos, imposed upon the Provisional Director the obligation of regulating the navigation of the internal rivers of the Republic, keeping in view therein the safety of the territory, and preventing fraud upon fiscal revenues. This task is of such importance that it would have been referred directly to the National Congress had it not been for the urgent necessity that was felt for remedying most serious evils, as any delay whatever would surround with embarrassments the work of the national organization, sanctioned and earnestly desired by the whole of the Argentine people. Since the fall of the Dictator, the collection of the import and export duties has been deranged and scattered about without order; and taking advantage of the absence of a central authority which might regulate that collection, and of laws and fiscal measures adapted to the existing circumstances of the country, smuggling is carried on extensively and with impunity on all the coasts of the Republic. In this way the proceeds of the external Custom-Houses, destined for defraying the expenses of the nation, are decreasing every day, and practices are established which demoralize commerce and separate interests that ought to remain united. On the other hand, the tenacity with which the interests of their commerce and their prosperity were sacrificed to the petty object of ephemeral personal aggrandizement, and the obstacles that were put in the way of the navigation of the magnificent channels that nature has given us, and of the free development of traffic, having been one of the principal causes that induced the littoral provinces to promote a regular organization of the nation; since that oppressive power has disappeared from the political stage, commerce has darted forward by the path that was before forbidden, but without rule or method; so that the further toleration of such a state of things is not only prejudicial to the national revenue, but might raise a doubt as to the complete sovereignty that the Republic possesses |