Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Mr. Raikes.

Department of State,
Washington , October 4, 1902 .

No. 2538.]

Sir: In reply to your note of the 1st instant, I have the honor to say that the Department has taken pleasure in communicating to Mr. George H. Bridgman the thanks of His Majesty’s Government for his action in behalf of British interests while serving as United States minister at La Paz.

In compliance with your request, Mr. William R. Sorsby has been instructed, with the consent of the Bolivian Government, to use his good offices in behalf of British subjects in Bolivia until His Majesty’s Government shall appoint its own representative in that Republic.

I have, etc.,

John Hay.