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.
PEDRO SALAVERRIA.

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
Relations with Abyssinia.... .......1846-1860. 772

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
Proclamation of Emperor. Promulgation of Fundamental Law

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
Belgium. Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

Do.

Vienna, 16th July, 1853. 1107
Additional Convention. Extradition of
Criminals... Brussels, 18th March, 1857. 1113

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.
Navigation.

Assumption, 1st August, 1860. 1027
Treaty. Friendship. Commerce.
Navigation.

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
Additional Convention. Extradition of
Criminals ... Brussels, 18th March, 1857. 1113
Baden. Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

Page

BELGIUM. TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, contd., viz.:-with
Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

Denmark.

Copenhagen, 10th December, 1851. 1054

Frankfort. Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

Frankfort, 27th May, 1852. 1079
Great Britain. Additional Convention. Postal.

Hamburgh. Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

Hamburgh, 27th January, 1851. 1057

Hawaiian Islands. Treaty. Friendship. Com-
merce. Navigation.

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
Convention. Navigation of Canal of
Ghent at Terneuzen.

The Hague, 24th September, 1862. 507
Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

Brussels, 13th October, 1862. 1117
Oldenburg. Convention. Extradition of Criminals.

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
Convention. Extradition of Cri-

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.
Brussels, 4th August, 1857. 1114

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