No. 280.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Pendleton.

No. 219.]

Sir: With reference to your dispatch No. 424, of the 25th ultimo, I beg to inform you that the Department has learned with satisfaction of the success of your efforts to secure a favorable modification of the German laws regulating the importation of plants from the United States into Germany.

I am, etc.,

T. F. BAYARD.