Melville
W. Fuller, of Illinois, Chief Justice of the United States; Hon. John W.
Griggs, of New Jersey, Attorney-General of the United States; and Hon.
George Gray, of Delaware, a judge of the circuit court of the United
States.
As an incident of the brief revolution in the Mosquito district of
Nicaragua early in 1899 the insurgents forcibly collected from American
merchants duties upon imports. On the restoration of order the
Nicaraguan authorities demanded a second payment of such duties on the
ground that they were due to the titular Government and that their
diversion had aided the revolt.
This position was not accepted by us. After prolonged discussion a
compromise was effected under which the amount of the second payments
was deposited with the British consul at San Juan del Norte in trust
until the two Governments should determine whether the first payments
had been made under compulsion to a _de facto_ authority. Agreement
as to this was not reached, and the point was waived by the act of the
Nicaraguan Government in requesting the British consul to return the
deposits to the merchants.
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