RESUME. 



359 



"The establishment of said navigation by steam upon the Amazon is 

 a point agreed upon in article 2d of the treaty ; as also the annual 

 subsidy of $20,000 by each one of the governments for the space of 

 five years in favor of the company that will undertake the enterprise ; 

 conditions to which this government is bound, and which it is desirous 

 of fulfil lino-. 



"This government, then, being aware of the contract celebrated with 

 the above-mentioned Don Juan ('Ireneo') Evangelista de Souza, it is 

 fit that I should say to your Excellency that, as according to article 3d 

 of the separate articles of the treaty, the contracts for navigation should 

 be made by agents duly authorized by both governments (the govern- 

 ment of his Majesty having initiated the formation of an enterprise to 

 this effect, and having also reference to that part of the course of the 

 river belonging to Peru, moved, without doubt, by the desire of hasten- 

 ing the attainment of the great objects to which this navigation is 

 destined,) this government cannot but hope that that of your Excellency 

 will deign to inform the company organized in Rio Janeiro that, as 

 respects the Peruvian shores, the conditions of navigation, its course 

 and extent, and the obligations relative to Peru, cannot be considered 

 as existing or efficacious, except for the five years agreed upon by the 

 treaty, and by the celebration of an agreement or contract with the 

 same government whence these obligations may arise. 



"There being no evidence up to this time that our Consul General, 

 Commissioner Don Evarista Gomez Sanchez, has been consulted in the 

 agreement ; and it being believed that, at the date of it, he was not in 

 Rio Janeiro, your Excellency will see how proper it is to make to you 

 this anticipation in furtherance of the realization of that internal navi- 

 gation which, for so long a time, has yearned for a decided and efficacious 

 protection on the part of the States who share these fruitful waters, 

 destined to open to the world new objects of speculation and of traffic, 

 and to give to commerce and civilization one more field for their efforts. 



"In the mean time, as, according to the advices of the same Consul 

 General, the first trip of the new steamers is to be made in the month 

 of May next, this government — for the purpose of avoiding difficulties 

 in their running, and to contribute to the important end which they are 

 destined to accomplish, until the opportunity occurs to arrange the con- 

 ditions obligatory in that navigation by a free contract on its part, as I 

 have already expressed to your Excellency, and according to the mutual 

 obligations contracted in the treaty — has thought proper to direct, as a 

 facility spontaneously conceded in the mean time to the navigation, that 

 the authorities who exercise jurisdiction on those shores should permit 



