Author: Orazio Donato Gideon De Atte Santangelo

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781330749852

Excerpt from The Memorial and Petition of Orazio De Attellis Santangelo: To the Congress of the United States of America The Memorial and Petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth, that: Orazio de Attellis Santangelo, a citizen of the United States, resident in the country for twenty-two years, and one of the Claimants on Mexico, is compelled to recur, for the first time, to your sovereign authority to have justice done, with regard to certain instalments of the Mexican indemnity, the payment of which, ordered by an act of Congress of the 3rd March, 1844, has been unjustly refused by our national treasury. This affair has been submitted to your wisdom by His Excellency the president of the United States, in his message of the 2nd December ultimo; but, as it is therein mentioned rather too laconically, and there being, on the other hand, many new members in the present Congress of the United States, who are quite unacquainted with the preceding facts, on which their judgment should properly be grounded, your Memorialist and Petitioner begs leave to lay the whole history of the true facts, together with his humble prayers, before you for your kind and provident consideration. Pursuant to the Convention of the 11th of April, 1839, between the governments of the United States and the Mexican Republic, certain American Claims were definitively adjusted and awarded to the amount of $2,026,139.68 - and others, amounting to nearly four millions of dollars, amongst which is a very important one of your Petitioner, remained for various causes unacted upon. A second Convention was then concluded on the 30th of January, 1843, between the two powers, in which it was agreed that the unadjusted claims should form the subject of a new Convention, and that the awarded ones should be paid by Mexico in twenty quarterly instalments, in gold or silver, in the city of Mexico, to an agent of the United States duly appointed. The new Convention was, in fact, signed on the 20th of November of the same year, 1843, in Mexico; but the Senate of the United States having proposed some amendments to it, it was sent back to Mexico, where it still lies in oblivion. Mexico, however, commenced the payment of the stipulated quarterly instalments of the awarded indemnity, and the Claimants punctually received those which fell due on the 30th of July, 30th of October, 1843, and 30th of January, 1844. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.