Mr. Hay to Mr. Sherman.

No. 375.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that, in obedience to your cabled instruction, I called on the 28th of April upon General Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan, envoy extraordinary and minster plenipotentiary of the Shah of Persia, at this court, and delivered to him a written notification of the state of war existing between the United States of America and Spain and requested him to communicate the same to his Government, which he engaged to do.

I have the honor to be, etc.,

John Hay.