Baron Fava to Mr. Blaine.

[Translation.]
Urgent.]

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to send you herewith two letters rogatory, accompanied with English translations; one of these letters is addressed to the competent judicial authorities of New York and the other to the competent judicial authorities of Wilkes Barre. Luzerne County, Pa., by the chamber of indictments of the court of appeals of Catanzaro, Italy.

These two letters rogatory have reference to the trial, in Italy, of Vincenzo Villella and Giuseppe Bevitino, whose case is referred to in Count Foresta’s two notes of July 8 and August 13, 1889.

Begging you, Mr. Secretary of State, to be pleased in the interest of justice to expedite the transmission to this royal legation of the documents called for by these letters rogatory, I think it proper for me to inform Your Excellency that I am authorized to pay, if necessarv, any expenses that the American judicial authorities may be obliged to incur in complying with the requests of the court of appeals at Catanzaro.

Offering you my warmest thanks in advance,

I avail myself, etc.

Fava.