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

Mr. Sorsby to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States,
La Paz, December 27, 1902.

No. 27.]

Sir: Acknowledging the receipt of the Department’s No. 8, of October 4 last, relative to the request of the British Government, through its chargé d’affaires ad interim at Washington, that the good offices of this legation be used in behalf of British subjects in Bolivia until a representative of that Government shall be appointed, I have the honor to report that in an interview on the 16th instant Dr. Eliodoro Villazon, the Bolivian minister for foreign affairs, expressed his willingness and satisfaction that the good offices of this legation should be used as heretofore in behalf of British subjects in Bolivia.

I have, etc.,

William B. Sorsby.