Mr. Romero to Mr. Sherman.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note No. 242, of yesterday, wherein you are pleased to propose that Article II of the protocol of March 2, 1897, last, whereby our respective Governments agreed to submit to arbitration the claim of Charles Oberlander and Barbara M. Messenger against Mexico, be modified in the sense that the term of three months therein fixed for the submission by each Government to the arbitrator of the correspondence, documents, and evidence previously submitted to the other Government with respect to said claims, be extended until the 1st of August of the present year.

Being duly authorized by my Government to accept such modification, I hereby admit it as effectively made in the protocol in question, without the necessity of other formalities.

Be pleased to accept, etc.

M. Romero.