Mr. Romero to Mr. Olney.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary: Although I still have no notice of the Argentine Government having granted leave to its minister at Madrid, Señor Don Vicente G. Quesada, to accept the office of arbitrator in the claims of Charles Oberlander and Barbara M. Messenger against Mexico, which both Governments have agreed to submit to him, I transmit to you the Spanish text of the protocol, in order that two fair copies may be made which we are to sign as soon as that notice is received.

That text is a translation of the English text which you were pleased to send me with your note No. 207, of the 29th of January last, with the additions and modifications which I proposed and which were approved by you in your note No. 210, of the 3d instant, and which contains a slight modification in the second paragraph of the preamble which perhaps may not need modification in the English text, but which the Government of Mexico prefers and which in no way changes the points agreed on.

Accept, etc.,

M. Romero.