Mr. Hay to Mr. Choate.

No. 522.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 459 of the 19th instant transmitting an order upon Her Majesty’s paymaster-general for £1,000, which the British secretary of war has awarded to Mrs. George F. Labram in recognition of the assistance afforded by her late husband to Her Majesty’s troops at Kimberly.

The order has this day been forwarded to Mrs. Labram.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.