No. 280.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Reed.
Department
of State,
Washington, March 27, 1882.
No. 48.]Washington, March 27, 1882.
Sir: I inclose a copy of a letter from Mr. Henry Beste, of New York, and of the protest dated the 20th instant, made by him against the payment of an impost exacted by the Spanish consul at New York, on the cargo shipped by him on the American schooner Clara Fletcher, L. I Sargent, master, bound for Arroyos, Porto Rico, of ten cents for each and every 1,000 kilograms weight of said cargo, amounting to $17.10. The legation will make use of this case, in connection with the other similar ones it has in charge, according to its best judgment.
I am, &c.,
FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.