The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Bowen.

No. 210.]

Sir: Your confidential dispatch No. 300, dated June 25 last, has been received and read with interest.

The Department desires to be kept fully informed respecting the demands of the Venezuelan Government upon the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company for 50,000,000 bolivars.

I am, etc.,

Francis B. Loomis.