Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Paris , November 6, 1900 .

No. 748.]

Sir: I have the honor of acknowledging receipt of your No. 839, of October 23, directing me, at the instance of the Secretary of the Navy, to convey to the French Government the thanks of the Navy Department for the facilities given by the authorities of Havre on the occasion of the death of a landsman belonging to the U. S. S. Hartford, and for the courtesies extended on that occasion.

Your instructions were complied with under date of the 5th instant.

I have, etc.,

Horace Porter.