No. 328.
Mr. Carter
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Caracas, April 19, 1882. (Received May 3.)
Sir: Referring to Mr. Baker’s No. 464, and to Department dispatch to me, No. 8, relative to the custody of ships’ registers, I have to inform you that I have several times urged upon the minister of exterior relations action, in the direction desired by the Government of the United States, but without any satisfactory result. In a recent interview with the minister, he informed me that the present practice of this government, in the matter, was regulated by an existing statute; but that they were prepared to entertain specific propositions from the Government of the United States for the modification of the law now in force.
I have, &c.,