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adjustment of similar claims in San Salvador. It will readily be under- 

 stood that, in the case of JNicaragua, there is no lack of a disposition to 

 adopt a similar course, the ulterior results of which it is easy to anticipate. 



I was also informed (and there is no doubt of the fact) that upon the 

 ITth of April a delegate on the part of Nicaragua proceeded through Leon 

 to Guatemala, at the invitation of Mr. Hise, to meet there a similar dele- 

 gation from San Salvador and Honduras. The purposes of this convo- 

 cation are, of course, unknown to me, as they were, I believe, to the 

 department at the time of my departure. 



Hon. John M. Clayton, 



Secretary of State of the U. S. of N. A, 



A. 



This is to certify, that Eustaquio Alvarez has paid seven pounds ten 

 shillings for a piece of land, having sixty-five feet of frontage on the harbor 

 and sixty-five feet on King street j bounded on the north by the sea, on 

 the south by King street, on the east by land belonging to Juan Mesnier, 

 on the west by land belonging to the government — sixty five feet from 

 east to west, and eighty-eight feet from north to south; and, until a 

 formal grant shall be made out hereafter, that he is owner of the aforesaid 

 piece of land. 



JAMES GREEN, 



H. B. M. Vice-consul. 



Eustaquio Alvarez: 







s. 



d. 



For 65 feet frontage on the harbor 



- 5 



4 



0 



Annual tax ... - 





8 



0 



For 65 feet frontage on King street 



- 1 



6 



0 



Annual tax on same 





2 



0 



Survey of harbor frontage 





5 



0 



Registration - - - - 





5 



0 





T 



10 



0 



Received payment: 



ROBERT COATES, 



Temporary Surveyor, 



B. 



San Juan de Nicaragua, 



June 10, 1849. 



Sir: In reply to your note of this morning, requesting such informa- 

 tion as I may possess upon the natural means of communication be- 

 tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the State of Nicaragua," 

 I have the honor to send you the following, condensed from my memo- 

 randa, of a personal examination of the two routes heretofore proposed as 



