Mr. Terres to Mr. Olney.

No. 153.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 102, of the 21st ultimo, relative to the attachment on the second installment of the indemnity awarded to Richard Allen.

In accordance with your instructions, I have transmitted to the secretary of state for foreign affairs the views of the Department on the subject.

I, however, beg leave to inform you that on the 15th ultimo an arrangement was made between Messrs. Devot and Allen by which the former agreed to raise the attachment, and that the amount was duly turned over to this legation by the National Bank of Haiti.

I have, etc.,

John B. Terres.