¹ Archives of the American Legation, Tangier, Consular Despatches, 1848-1861, p. 35.

² Archives of the British Legation, Tangier, Foreign Office Letter Book. April 24, May 18, 1852.

³ Archives of the American Legation, Tangier, Consular Despatches, 1848-1861, p. 97. In a despatch to his government dated June 23, 1861, Sir John Drummond Hay noted the fact that the Shereefian Government had already accepted the services of a French engineer to superintend the construction of a lighthouse. In the same despatch he declared, “ I warned Barzah against admitting the right of any foreign government to assume the sole control of the lighthouse. He assured me that the lighthouse would be built solely at the expense of the Moorish Government, but that the French engineer would be allowed to fix the site and form of the buildings.” Archives of the British Legation, Tangier, Foreign Office Letter Book, June 23, 1861.

⁴ Joaquin Yeléz Villanueva, Recopilación Legislativa en la Zona de Influencia de España en Marruecos, en la de Tánger y enlade Francia (Madrid, 1917), p. 23.

⁵ Archives of the British Legation, Tangier, Foreign Office Letter Book, March 23, 1867.

⁶ Archives of the American Legation, Tangier, Consular Despatches, 1861-1870, p. 78.

⁷ W. M. Malloy, Treaties, Conventions, Etc., between the United States and Other Powers (Washington, 1910), Vol. I, p. 1217.

⁸ Phare de Cap Spartel, Cornell d’Administration, pp. 34-35. The archives rotate with the presidency of the International Commission and are at present found in the British Legation.

⁹ Rapport de la Commission Technique Internationale du Phare du Cap Spartel (Tanger, 1914).

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Germany, Russia, and the separation of Norway and Sweden made the extra three.

¹² The budget of the commission during the war period indicates that the lighthouse keeper's salary was paid to Herr Gumpcrt, even though an exile in Spain, the French Government apparently holding itself responsible for the salary of his successor. At the close of the war, the commission reinstated Herr Gumpert, who retained the post till his death in 1927.

¹³ In 1927 the quota was raised to 2,250 pesetas, and in 1929 to 4,500 pesetas.

¹⁴ Archives de la Commission Internationale du Phare du Cap Spartel. Lettre de M. Rouville datée du 31 Mars 1928 à Monsieur le Président de la Commission.

¹⁵ Archives de la Commission Internationale du Phare de Cap Spartel, Procès verbaux de la séance du 89 décenibre, 1926.