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APPENDIX.

Appendix

Mr. Mocatta's Statement of hij the Loan of 1862.

40]

(D).

Brighton,

&

Messieurs Baring, Brothers,

Money

the Disposal of the

Co.,

raised

Octoier ]3<A, 1865.

London.

Gentlemen,

The

addressed to you, of the 29th September

letter

Senor A. L. Guzman, lays a distinct charge that yoiu' agents their duties

Owdng Charge

^^'ith

to the

respect to the

d'Affaires, I

brought against 2

am am

of 1862.

alone to reply thereto

left alale

by documents

however,

this,

;

is

is

made

H. Nadal

;

and

to a previous hypothecation,

this is

answered by the

refers

fact of the creditors

represented the $4,240,000 having accepted the terms offered

prior to the Loan, it

that a

is

common fund

necessary to state the particulars

directors of the

bank

Government.

them

this took place :

—

was agreed

It

of 27 per cent, of the duties of Imports should be

which had been paid

substituted for the 38 per cent.,

to the

As

meetings on the 1st and 8th May, 1862.

at public

not

to disprove the false charges

us.

— Allusion

to a letter of Dr.

who

\>\

lamented demise of F. D. Orme, Esq., C.B., Her Majesty's

a diflRcult task, as I

At page

Loan

last,

failed in

to that date

notified the acceptance of this

This

new arrangement proves

tion of the 38 per cent, ceased,

;

the

new agreement

that the hj^aotheca-

and no formal cancelment was needful.

Owing to the stopping of the bank, Mr. Carl Hahn, director thereof, made a written proposal to "the Government for a new arrangement, based on the 27 per cent, security.

In the Independiente of the 26th

Jime, 1862, the bank directors published a notice declaring that the shareholders accepted a proposal the capital of the

1862, at the

me

;

50 per

made by cent.,

at a general

the

Government

payable in

;

to purchase

five years

;

this

was

meeting held on the 3rd July,

bank premises, and presided over by

Secretary-General

Urbaneja)

at

and approved

.sanctioned

binding to

bank

his Excellency the

the A^ote passed vdih only one dissentient (Dr. D. B.

the whole was pulilished in the Caracas papers

all interested,

whether

to the case laid before the

And

citizens or foreigners.

High Federal Court

;

as

;

this

was

this brings

it

was put, V D


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