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Oct. 9. '77
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Copy. After taking the necessary informations resulting
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courteous communicature of the 6th of August last, regarding the indemnization requested on the part of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the nation you workily represent in behalf of Mr. J.B. Field & M. 25. Hodgkins. British subjects and supercargo (sic) of the Brig "Maria Louisa" captured on the 15th of Aug: 1873 the waters of Sooloo by Spanish cruisers, it results that this Govt General in
not in possession of the antecedents requisite to a solution, suice the Govt of His Spanish Majesty has given it no instructions in
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connection with the above mentioned reclamation and therefore for that reason & however leasehold appears to me
to me the notable reduction Made in the indemnification asthed for, I find myself unable to emit a definite decision on the matter, as one regarding the Govt of His Spanish Majesty to wh: it shall be referred by the next Mail.
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I cannot conclude without Manifesting You my regret at not being able to comply with the request expressed in Your referred. to communication, as also that the slight delay wh: has occurred in the expedituri of the present affair is solely due to the H.B.M. Consult Mauila
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