[Three Pamphlets Submitted by American Rifle Companies Asserting Claims Against the Mexican Government]

[N.p., likely Washington, D.C., 1870. Very good plus.. 8; 8; 8pp. In English and Spanish. Gathered signatures, each stitched separately. Very minor edge wear and toning. A trio of separate claims by American companies and individuals involved in selling arms to the Mexican government in the mid-19th century. Two of the claims come from the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company, while the third was filed by the legal counsel of Sanderson Brothers and Company, who had assumed debts owed to the Robbins and Lawrence Company of Windsor, Vermont, who had previously manufactured Minie rifles sold to the Mexican government. The claims from Sharps were filed by the company's President, John C. Palmer and an investor named James T. Ames, who had assumed a claim against Mexico from a Sharps salesman who owed him money. Palmer, on behalf of the Sharps Company, asked the Joint Commission for almost $30,000 (including the portion owed to Ames) while Ames made a separate claim for his $14,223. The Sanderson claim amounted to almost $10,000, including interest. Each of the three claimants also asked for reimbursement of fees for making these claims, between and thousand and fifteen hundred dollars. These claims resulted from the need to settle numerous debts held by both American and Mexican entities against each other, following the expulsion of the French from Mexico in 1867. Many of these claims were long-standing since the agreement reached in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. All three of the present claims stemmed from transactions of rifles in 1859, for which only partial cash payment had been made at the time of the purchase.