ABSTRACT
No. 01 the Governor-General of the Cape de Verde Islands, taking possession of the Island of Bulama in the name of the Portuguese Government. Beavers Po-rt, 1st October, 1870.*
(Translation.) IN the year of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1870, on the 1st day of October,
at Beavers Port, in the Island of Bulama, in presence of his Excellency Caetano Alexandre d'Almeida Albuquerque, Governor-General of the Province of Cape Verde Islands and their Dependencies, as Representative of the Portuguese Government, and Mr. J. Craig Loggie, Civil Commandant of the island, as Representative of the British Government, and in the presence of the persons Undersigned, the said Governor-General, in the name of his Government, took possession of this Island of Bulama, without any opposition, protest, or reclamation, that could raise a doubt, and in accordance with the follo,ving decision, wllich was i~sued by the President of the United States of America, chosen as arbitrator by the two Governments of Portugal and England, to decide upon the rights which both nations thought they had to the possession of the said island and to some territory in front thereof, which decision is as follows :-
[Here follows the Award of 21st April, 1870. (No. 300.)] And in order to certify the possession taken by the said Governor-
General of the Cape Verde Islands and their Dependencies as Representative of the Portuguese Government, and which was transferred to him by Mr. J. Craig Loggie, Civil Commandant, the present Act has been drawn up and is to be duly registered after it is signed by the said Representative of the Portuguese Government, Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque, Governor-General of the Cape Verde Province, and by Mr. J. Craig Loggie, Representative of the British Government, and the witnesses who were present. And I, Guilherme Augusto de Brito Capello, Second Lieutenant of the Portuguese Navy, acting as Secretary, have written and signed it.
