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402
not require
certainly did
it
learned judges to say that a prior
tlie
mortgage took precedence of a second claim, for a schoolboy would be deemed a dunce did he not
have been very
and
different,
little of it, as
this.
Had
the case with
stroke of the pen they reduced
not only for the parties interested, but for
cent.,
all its
must
Court, the sentence
evident the present Government thovight
it is
by a
know
High Federal
bearings been referred to the
it
to 15 per
internal
the
all
creditors.
At page by
3
— Seiior Guzman
states that yoiu' agents directly interfered,
partial arrangements wliich they
this is mitrue, as
they simply
made with some
the Secretary of State, which were to take
&
Parclo
ment
Co.,
and
others,
up the
shares held
on a consideration being made
for the advance of
no demur,
of the creditors
fulfilled the instructions of his
payment
as the fmids of the
by Messrs. Govern-
to the
in this your agents could
;
Loan were ample
;
Excellency
make
for all just claims,
shown in my letter of the 10th April, 1863, in document No. 1. At page 4 Much stress is laid on the French and Spanish claims, which were in the hands of their respective representatives, and must have been* unadjusted, or they would have come forward, together with as
—
the other
Again, had the
diplomatic claims.
shares and notes of the
bank presented them
would have received the instalments
in
holding
parties
the
to the Commission, they
November, 1862
;
thus your
agents had no cognizance or intervention therein, and cannot be justly
accused of neglect of duty. I know, however, that several ^^ayments were
made
in
money
to the order of
Monsieur Millinet, the French Charge
d'Affaires.
At page
6
—
It is asserted that the internal creditors
even consulted
;
were not paid nor
this is untrue, as another agreement was entered into at
a public meeting, and from this emanated the
decree
November for the settlement of the bank claims. At page 8 It is said, by not calling a general meeting
—
of
the
of the internal
creditors, the agents
prevented the settlement of their claims
say the least of
ludicrous,
or General
it, is
and
Guzman would have
had he presumed
to
call
should like to
I
15th
;
this, to
know what Senor
said to the agent of the 1864 Loan,
a meeting
of the creditors of the Export
Duties. It is stated that the
law of Venezuela requires that a Loan should be
* Sic
ill
ori'T.