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nearly a year ago into a Federal district, has a governor and a sufficient 

 number of alcaldes and other subalterns to maintain order and police. Be- 

 sides the army which is moving upon Antioquia and Cauca, there has 

 been raised and organized another of reserve, as strong as the former, 

 and divided into three parts, which garrison the States of Santander, 

 Boyaca, and Cundinamarca. The national engagements in matters of 

 credit have engaged the attention of the Government in the most 

 especial manner. No outlay, not even to satisfy the necessities of exist- 

 ence, does it prefer to fulfilling its obligations with foreign creditors. 

 Also are religiously cancelled the obligations in favour of foreigners 

 given by the disloyal Government of the extinct Granadine Confedera- 

 tion, for the sums taken to make war upon the States which have sup- 

 ported Federal institutions. Property belonging to foreigners is more 

 efficiently protected than it appears ever to have been before. In fact, 

 all that has relation to the faithful observance of public treaties, to the 

 persons, properties, and rights of citizens, or subjects of other nations, 

 is a subject of special solicitude to the Colombian Government, it being 

 well persuaded that the civilization as well as the good of the country 

 demand a faithful fulfilment of its foreign engagements, in order to raise 

 the national credit, and to aggrandize, by the increase of knowledge, of 

 wealth, and population, the modest country in which our lot has been 

 cast. To conclude, a solid and general peace is approaching with quick 

 steps, and I believe that I shall be able to announce it to you definitely, 

 together with the notice of the commencement of the operation of the 

 national Convention, within two months. Some material improvements 

 have been undertaken ; but the favourable moment of entire peace has 

 not yet arrived to carry out all that the Government intends and desires 

 to accomplish. In the " Rejistro Oficial " you will find all that has 

 been done in these branches, and in favour of European immigration 

 and the colonization of ou r waste lands. 



Manuel Ancisar. 

 Bogota, June 5, 1862. 



