Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Rockhill to Mr. Lee.

Washington, September 5, 1896.

Sir: The Department has received your dispatch No. 106, of the 29th ultimo, with inclosures, relative to the fate of Charles Govin, a citizen of the United States, and in reply you are instructed to press unremittingly for a full investigation and a report in this matter.

I am, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill,
Acting Secretary.