Note XXXIII-4 — Chapter XXXIII · COMMERCE AND FINANCE. 1801-1887.

In 1853 the several governments entered into contracts with the Central Am. Steam Navigation Co., an American concern, to run a line of steamers once a month between Iztapam in Guatemala and Panamá, touching at Acajutla, La Libertad, La Union, Amapala, Realejo, San Juan del Sur, and Puntarenas, for the conveyance of passengers, merchandise, and mails at fixed rates, each government paying a subsidy, and allowing exemptions from port dues and other privileges. The service began early in 1854, and continued with repeated trips in each month, first by the Panamá Railway Company's steamers, and subsequently by those of the U. S. Pac. Mail Steamship Company. Costa R., Boletin Ofic., Feb. 16, 1854; Id., Col. Ley., xii. 256-7; Salv., Gac., Jan. 20, 1854; Id., El Rol, Dec. 1, 1854; Cent. Am. Miscel. Doc., 44; Hunt's Merchants' Mag., xxiii. 113.