Count Quadt to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary of State: In compliance with instructions, I have the honor respectfully to bring to the knowledge of your excellency the following agreement, arrived at by the Imperial Ambassador Count von Hatzfeldt and Lord Salisbury on the 16th instant, by means of an exchange of notes.1

Accept, Mr. Secretary of State, the renewed assurance of my most distinguished consideration,

A. Quadt.
  1. English translation of agreement, printed under Great Britain, p. 354.