BLOCKADE or TEXAS
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October l6, 1837. 8ss


information has been officially receiYed from the
United States Consul at Matanaoras that the ports
of Galveston and the Brazes in Texas, have been
declared biockaded by the Commander Of the Mex
lean naval forces in the Gull. The following is q
translation, of the declaration, published in the
Mercurio de MataEnoras, of September Isl, 1887:


On board brig ITuRBiDE,


$50 August 81, 1887.


I, the undersigned, Commanding General Of the
maritime forces of Mexico, in the Gulf being pro-
vided with sufficient means and acting agreeabiy to
the orders of the Supreme Government to that eff
feet do hereby declare the ports of Galveston and
Brszos to be actually blockaded, conformably with
the principles of maratime and national right to-
wards those nations with which the Mexican Re
public has no treaties and with the basis establish
ed by those treaties themselves in the other cases
allowing six months warning from this day to all
vessels belonging to the United States of the North
the American Republics Of the South. and the ma
tions of Europe and three months warning to those


from the West Indies and the British possessions in
North America, and in the Peninsula of Yucatan
within which periods they will not be made prizes
by the vessels under my command unless after they
shall have been spoken and warned Of the blockade,
they are found sailing towards either of the above
mentioned ports; which warning shall be given by
means Of note in the yesses patent signed by the
officer who speaks her.
And in order that this declaration be duly made
known, the Supreme Mexican Government has or
dered that it be printed the newspapers Of Mata
mofas, Tampico, and Vera Cruz God and Liber-
ty. JOSE DE ALBANIA.