Action of authorities at Santiago in placing a 1078 1079 79 Mr. Schmitt to Mr. Fish.... Nov. 23 Inclosing Captain Fry's letter to the consul, and 1079 sworn declaration. 737......do -- Mr. Hall to Mr. Davis. 737 Mr. Hall to Mr. Fish.. Dec. 4 5 1090 740 Removal of prisoners from Santiago without au- Mr. Young to Mr. Fish...... Dec. 18 Transmitting a list of the persons captured on the Virginius, and a list of those surrendered to the Transmitting telegrams respecting dispensing Returning Mr. Cushing's letter with thanks; hopes Dec. 12 Mr. Williams to Mr. Fish.... Dec. 17 Mr. Fish to Mr. Robeson...., Dec. 17 Mr. Fish to Mr. Williams... Dec. 22 73 Mr. Williams to Mr. Fish... Dec. 23 Requests that steps may be taken to carry out the 1095 1098 1098 1100 1101 1101 1107 1107 1107 1108 1109 1113 1115 1116 In reply to the last; the district attorney in New 1117 Renewing request that the line of steamers be- 1117 The Secretary of the Treasury is prepared to ad- 1119 1119 1120 04 Mr. Russell to Mr. Fish...... July 13 Reply of the Venezuelan minister for foreign 1213 relations to the protest of the United States 1216 July 13 Complaints made by emigrants from the United Arrival of an embassy from Colombia; seizure of 1216 -09 Mr. Fish to Mr. Russell Nov. 6 Nov. 25 PROCLAMATION, ETC. No. 1. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas by the thirty-third article of a treaty concluded at Washington on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, it was provided that "Articles XVIII to XXV, inelusive, and Article XXX of this treaty, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the legislature of Prince Edward's Island, on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States, on the other;" And whereas it is provided by Article XXXII of the treaty aforesaid "that the provisions and stipulations of articles XVIII to XXV of this treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the colony of Newfoundland, so far as they are applicable. But if the Imperial Parliament, the legislature of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States, shall not embrace the colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, then this article shall be of no effect; but the ommission to make provision by law to give it effect, by either of the legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other articles of this treaty;" And whereas by the second section of an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the 8th day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," it is provided: "That whenever the colony of Newfoundland shall give its consent to the application of the stipulations and provisions of the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth of said treaty, inclusive, to that colony, and the legislature thereof and the Imperial Parliament shall pass the necessary laws for that purpose, the above-enumerated articles, being the produce of the fisheries of the colony of Newfoundland, shall be admitted into the United States free of duty, from and after the date of a proclamation by the President of the United States declaring that he has satisfactory evidence that the said colony of Newfoundland has consented, in a due and proper manner, to have the provisions of the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth inclusive of the said treaty extended to it, and to allow the United States the full benefits of all the stipulations therein contained, and shall be so admitted free of duty so long as the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth of said treaty, shall remain in force, according to the terms and conditions of article thirty-third of said treaty;" And whereas the Secretary of State of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington have recorded, in a protocol of a conference held by them at the Department of State in Washington on the 28th day of May, 1874, in the following language: |