Mr. Hay to Señor Azpíroz.

No. 121.]

Excellency: I have the honor to inclose herewith copy of a letter from the governor of Texas acknowledging the receipt of the draft for $14,851.48 which you inclosed to this Department with your note of the 2d instant and expressing to the President, the Congress, and the people of Mexico the most grateful appreciation of himself and of the people of Texas for this generous contribution to the relief of the storm sufferers at Galveston.

Accept, etc.,

John Hay
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[Inclosure.]

Governor Sayers to Mr. Hay.

Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 6th instant with the inclosure of a draft for $14,851.48, the same being the equivalent in United States gold of $30,000 Mexican money, voted by the Congress of the United Mexican States toward the relief of the suffering caused at Galveston by the recent storm; also copies of the note to you by the Mexican ambassador, inclosing the same, and of your reply thereto.

You will please convey, through the Mexican ambassador, to the President, the Congress, and the people of Mexico the most grateful acknowledgments of myself and of the people of this State for the prompt, unsolicited, and generous contribution to the relief of the storm sufferers at Galveston.

I can only indicate my appreciation of this generous exhibition of kindly feeling upon the part of our neighboring Republic by expressing the sincere hope that prosperity, peace, and happiness may forever abide within its borders.

I have, etc.,

Joseph D. Sayers,
Governor of Texas.