The outstanding
national bank notes were those issued by the defunct Banque Nationale
de Saint Domingue.
_Undeclared Claims_. The undeclared claims, such as
had not been formally presented, were estimated as
follows:--
American claims......................... L1,000,000
British claims.......................... 50,000
Italian claims.......................... 200,000
Spanish and German claims............... 200,000
Other foreign claims.................... 50,000
Dominican claims........................ 2,500,000
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Total............................ L4,000,000
The foreign claims were principally for damages during revolutions,
violations of contract, failure of justice, false imprisonment, etc.
The principal one was an American claim, that of Wm. P. Clyde & Co.,
of New York, of over $600,000 and was based on the failure of the
Dominican government regularly to enforce certain high port dues
against all vessels, save those of the Clyde line, as agreed in the
Clyde concession.
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