Office of the Historian

Mr. Duarte to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]
Legation of Portugal in the United States,
July 21, 1900.

By order of his excellency the minister and secretary of state for foreign affairs, I have the honor to inform your excellency for such effect as may be proper that on this day the Portuguese Government, in fulfillment of the award of the arbitral tribunal of Berne in the matter of the litigation relative to the Lourenco Marquez (Delagoa Bay) Railroad, and in order to effect a complete release from its responsibility, deposits in the branch office of the Comptoir d’Escompte, at London, to the joint order of the American and English Governments, under the terms of the award aforesaid, the sum corresponding to the awarded indemnhty, augmented by the interest, at 5 per cent, computed from the 25th day of June, 1889, to the 21st of July, 1900.

I avail myself of this opportunity to reiterate, etc.,

E. da Costa Duarte.