No. 419.
Mr. Valera to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

The undersigned, Minister Plenipotentiary, in compliance with the order of his Government, has the honor to remit to the honorable T. F. Bayard, for the information of the Government of the United States, the inclosed copy of the Official Gazette, of Madrid, in which is inserted the protocol* concluded between Spain and Germany, by the mediation of His Holiness the Pope, Leo XIII, relative to the sovereignty of Spain in the archipelagoes of the Caroline and Pelew Islands, concluded at Rome the 17th of December of the last year.

The undersigned avails himself, &c.,

JUAN VALERA.
  1. Published page 776, supra.