No. 51.
Mr. Putnam to Mr. Blaine.

[Extract.]
No. 72.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of dispatch No. 45, and to state that I have in person, and by note, expressed to the minister [Page 73] of foreign affairs the satisfaction with which the Government of the United States has learned the action of the Belgian Government relating to the importation and use of American pork.

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I have, &c.,

JAMES O. PUTNAM.