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Mr. Hart to Mr. Hay .

Legation of the United States,
Bogotá , October 23, 1902 .
No. 678.]

Sir: Referring to the Department’s No. 421, of September 6, 1902, and to various dispatches of this legation representing the hardships to which American citizens sojourning in this country are subjected, and having in mind the Department’s consequent instructions, I assume that the only course open to Mr. Barney and Messrs. Holman & Shearer is to prepare their claims and forward them to the Department of State. I shall bring their cases to the attention of the foreign office; but since I know of no way to compel the immediate payment of indemnity, I presume the cases will rest where they are until the Department of State shall instruct me to present and press the claims.

I am, etc.,

Chas. Burdett Hart.