Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 116.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Hall.

Department of State,
Washington, July 11, 1888.

No. 596.]

Sir: With further reference to Mr. Hosmer’s dispatch No. 817, of the 5th ultimo, in relation to the Spanish Central American line of steamrers and Costa Rica, I have to request you to furnish to the Department as full information as possible in regard to the contracts of the German and English line of steamers referred to in your correspondence with the Costa Rican minister for foreign affairs.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.