DECREE OF THE GOVERNMENT. Buenos Ayres, 23d July, 1823. LET acknowledgment be made of the receipt of this, and let it be inserted in the Official Register; and, being ratified, let its enactments be acted upon. (Signed) RIVADAVIA. MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO CHILE, PERU, AND COLOMBIA. Buenos Ayres, 23d July, 1823. By virtue of the powers confided to the Government by the law of the 17th instant, it decrees as follows: 1. The accession of the Republics of Chile and Peru to the preliminary convention of the 4th instant shall be negotiated through the medium of a Minister Plenipotentiary, accredited to the Governments of both the aforesaid States, as well as to that of Colombia. 2. Don Felix Alzaga, Citizen of the United Provinces, is hereby nominated Minister Plenipotentiary for the aforesaid purposes. 3. The Minister Plenipotentiary shall receive a monthly allowance equal to eight thousand dollars per annum. 4. Two thousand dollars yearly shall be as signed to the Secretary of the Legation, who shall be nominated by the aforesaid Minister. 5. The salaries assigned by the present decree shall be defrayed from the funds, for the expenditure of which the Government is authorised by the law of the 19th June of this year. 6. Let the title and credentials corresponding be given, and let it be inserted in the Official Register. (Signed) RIVADAVIA. COMMISSIONER BY THE WAY OF PERU. Buenos Ayres, 23d July, 1823. THE Government being authorised, by the law of the 17th instant, to ratify the preliminary convention entered into on the 4th instant between this Government and the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty accredited to it, as well as to negotiate the accession to the said convention on the part of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, has decreed as follows: 1. A Commissioner shall be sent by the way of Peru, to the Commander of the Spanish forces occupying part thereof, charged to negotiate on his way, in concert with the Envoy to the provinces of the Union, the accession of each to the aforesaid preliminary convention. 2. The aforesaid Commissioner, jointly with those of Spain, shall endeavour to have the con vention carried into effect in the territory occupied by the Spanish authorities in Peru, as well as to establish the best possible relations of friendship and commerce. 3. Don Juan Gregorio de las Heras, General of the United Provinces, is hereby appointed to carry this commission into effect. 4. The Commissioner shall receive a monthly allowance equal to 8,000 dollars annually, including his pay for his services in the army. 5. The salary assigned by the foregoing article shall be defrayed from the funds, for the expenditure of which the Government is authorised by the 4th article of the law of the 19th June of this year. 6. Let the credentials required by this decree be delivered; let it be transcribed in the Ministries of War and Finance, and let it be inserted in the Official Register. (Signed) RIVADAVIA. COMMISSIONER BY THE WAY OF PARAGUAY. Buenos Ayres, 28th July, 1823. IN conformity with the law of the 17th instant, the Government decrees as follows: 1. A special Commissioner shall go to Paraguay, and negotiate with the provinces on his road the accession of each to the preliminary convention entered into between this Government and the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty. 2. Dr. Don Juan Garcia de Cosio, Member of the Tribunal of Justice, is hereby appointed to that Commission, with the salary of his employment and travelling expenses corresponding. 3. Let the proper credentials be made out, delivered, and inserted in the Official Register. (Signed) RIVADAVIA. THE COMMISSIONER FOR THE LINE OF OCCUPATION. Buenos Ayres, 23d July, 1823. WITHOUT prejudice to the power acknowledged, by the 2d article of the preliminary convention of the 4th current, to exist in the authorities of his Catholic Majesty in Peru, and in the provinces bordering on the territory which they occupy, to put in force the particular stipulations which may be proposed for reciprocal convenience, the Government, exercising the power given to it by the law of the 17th of the aforesaid month, decrees the following: 1. A Commissioner of this Government shall be sent immediately to the territory of the province of Salta, for the better fulfilment of the duties. which hereinafter are detailed, placing himself previously on a footing of understanding with the authorities which are expressed. 2. The regulation of the line of occupation for that part of Peru, between the Spanish authorities and those of the territories adjacent, belonging to the nation of the United Provinces. 3. The regulation of the relations of peace, amity, and commerce, with the States situated as well without as within the line of occupation. 4. The careful preservation of the line by both parties, and the good ordering of the relations which may be occasioned by the preliminary convention. 5. The General of the United Provinces, Don Juan Antonio Alvarez de Arenales, is nominated to exercise that commission, with an annual salary equivalent to his pay when in employ with the army. 6. Let the credentials be made out which this decree requires; let it be transcribed for those whom it concerns, and inserted in the Official Register. NOTE. The Deputy to the interior provinces, Dr. Don Diego Estanislao Zavaleta, is especially charged with the negotiation to see that the anterior de |