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mitted, will prevent you from experiencing any pecuniary inconvenience in consequence of the change. Your present salary will cease on the day of your receipt of this despatch, of which you will advise the De- partment, and from that date you will draw at the rate of seven thou- sand five hundred dollars, as l\Iinister Resident in Nicaragua, and at the rate of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum as compensation for the superadded office to begin on the day of your .departure from your residence in Nicaragua for the Capital of Costa Rica for the purpose of presenting your credentials to that Govern- ment." No. 2606. THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER TO LAMAR San Jose, Costa Rica, Hotel de Costa Rica; March 28th /58. )Iy DEAR GENERAL LAMAR, Having learned you were on the eve of visiting Costa Rica, and ·might, possibly, arrive by the Steamer on the 3rd of next month, I have availed myself of the kindness of a gentleman, whose acquaintance I made on our trip up from Pannama, to apprise you that I am staying ·here, at this house, the Hotel de Costa Rica, and would advise you, in case you have no better already secured, to make it your quarters- If I mistake not, you will find it comfortable and pleasant, and it will ·-delight me truly to find myself under the same roof with you- With sincere esteem believe me :Most faithfully to remain your friend THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER 'To General l\I. B. Lamar U. S. Th:(inister [Endorsed: J Mr. :Meagher to Genl Lamar Private- unimportant- 'San Jose-26, :March. No. 2612. LA:l\IAR TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF GRANADA [Translation from the Spanish J [Granada, Nicaragua,] April [4, l 1858 'To the Honorable :Municipality of the City of Granada Mirabeau B. Lamar, citizen of the United States of America, and now resident in the City of :Managua-respectfully sets forth to this Honorable Body that he desires to buy the plot of land situated be- tween the road of Pochotes and that of San Francisco; and that ex- tends from Guadalupe to the shores of the lake, for which land the petitioner is disposed to pay the price which is considered just and xeasonable. The petitioner begs that you will permit him to assure you that in 'lllaking thi,: request he has not in view any pecuniary speculations; and that he ·desires this land with the sole object of procuring a residence in Granada agreeable to his family- Such transfer he believes will be quite profitable for the City, as well as agreeable for him ;-since it will • not only be the means· of preventing the said land from being occupied by worthless people who will in no way contribute to the beauty, re-
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