No. 43.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Bounder de Melsbroeck.

Sir: With reference to your note of the 21st ultimo relative to the international congress of commercial law, which is to be held at Brussels in September next, I have the honor to inform you that David Dudley Field, esq., of New York, has been duly appointed as American delegate to the congress in question.

Accept, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.