Founded on these considerations, your Council of Ministers has the honour to submit to your Majesty's sovereign approbation the following project of Decree. Madam, at your Majesty's Royal feet, LEOPOLDO O'DONNELL. SATURNINO CALDERON COLLANTES. SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ NEGRETE. JUAN DE ZAVALA. JOSE DE POSADA HERRERA. RAFAEL DE BUSTOS Y CASTILLA. ROYAL DECREE. In consideration of the reasons which have been laid before me by my Council of Ministers, and acceding with the most heartfelt pleasure to the wishes of the Dominican people, of whose affection and loyalty I have received so many proofs, I hereby decree as follows: Art. I. The territory which constituted the Dominican Republic is re-incorporated with the Monarchy. II. The Captain-General, Governor of the Island of Cuba, shall prescribe, in conformity with the instructions of my Government, the requisite measures for the carrying out of this Decree. III. My Government shall give account to the Cortes of the present Decree, and of the measures adopted for its fulfilment. Given at Aranjuez, the 19th of May, 1861. (Signed by the Royal hand.) LEOPOLDO O'DONNELL, President of the Council of Ministers. INDEX. A. Page ABYSSINIA. Correspondence with Great Britain. Political and Commercial AFRICA (EAST COAST). Correspondence with Great Britain. Slave Trade. AFRICA (WEST COAST). Correspondence with Great Britain. Slave Trade. ALVARDO. Notification (British). French Blockade. 1860-1861. 529 1860-1861. 529, 627 London, 17th June, 1862. 487 (French). French Blockade. Paris, 5th June, 1862. 487 ANHALT-BERNBURG. TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :~with Page AUSTRIA. Fundamental Law of the Kingdom ...Vienna, 26th February, 1861. 1218 of the Kingdom. Vienna, 26th February 1861. 1216 Protocol with Turkey, &c. Servia. Kanlidja, 4th September, 1862. 1141 TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :—with Do. Vienna, 16th July, 1853. 1107 Great Britain, &c. Convention. Postal. London, 13th October, 1862. 1148 Vienna, 15th October, 1857. 952 Modena. Convention. Customs Union. B. BADEN. TREATIES &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :--with Belgium. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Frankfort, 11th June, 1844. 1035 Great Britain, &c. Convention. Postal. Paraguay, &c. Turkey, &c. London, 13th October, 1862. 1148 Treaty. Friendship. Commerce. Assumption, 1st August, 1860. 1027 Constantinople, 20th March, 1862. 733 BAVARIA. TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :—with BELGIUM. Law. Extradition of Criminals... Brussels, 1st October, 1833. 1033 Extradition of Criminals...Windsor, 22nd March, 1856. 1035 TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :—with Austria. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Do. Vienna, 16th July, 1853. 1107 Page BELGIUM. TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, contd., viz.:-with Denmark. Copenhagen, 10th December, 1851. 1054 Frankfort. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Frankfort, 27th May, 1852. 1079 Hamburgh. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Hamburgh, 27th January, 1851. 1057 Hawaiian Islands. Treaty. Friendship. Com- Brussels, 4th October, 1862. Hesse-Cassel. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Hesse-Darmstadt. Hesse-Homburg. 521 Frankfort, 20th December, 1852. 1081 Lichtenstein. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Frankfort, 20th December, 1852. 1092 Lippe. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Neustrélitz, 9th June, 1851. 1069 Nassau. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Wiesbaden, 20th December, 1851. 1074 Netherlands. Additional Convention. Extradition Do. Do. of Criminals. Brussels, 3rd September, 1855. 1231 The Hague, 24th September, 1862. 507 Brussels, 13th October, 1862. 1117 Oldenburg, 2nd July, 1851. 1066 BELGIUM. TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN POWERS, contd., viz. :—with Portugal. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Page Lisbon, 26th June, 1854. 1110 Do . Declaration. Extradition of Criminals. Reuss-Greitz. Lisbon, 29th September, 1854. 1112 minals. Frankfort, 20th December, 1852. 1084 Reuss-Schleitz. Convention. Extradition of Cri- minals. Frankfort, 20th December, 1852. 1087 Sardinia. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Turin, 26th January, 1852. 1076 Saxe-Altenburg. Convention. Extradition of Cri- Saxony. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Dresden, 23rd February, 1851. 1059 Schaumburg-Lippe. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Frankfort, 12th March, 1853. 1095 Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt. Convention. Extradi- tion of Criminals. Frankfort, 8th June, 1853. 1103 Schwartzburg-Sondershausen. Convention. Extra- dition of Criminals. Frankfort, 13th June, 1853. 1105 Switzerland. Treaty. Friendship. Commerce. Berne, 11th December, 1862. 500 Tuscany. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Waldeck and Pyrmont. Convention. Extradition of Criminals. Frankfort, 1st April, 1853. 1097 Wurtemberg. Convention. Extradition of Crimi- nals Stutteardt, 2nd Frankfort, 4th April, 1853. 1100 BELIZE. Decree (Honduras). Extradition of Criminals, Refugees from Belize..... Santa Rosa, 17th May, 1862. 951 BLOCKADE (French). French Notification. Tampico and Alvarado, in Gulf |