Chargé Hutchinson to the Secretary of State.

No. 328.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s No. 218 of September 10, 1904, with inclosures, instructing Mr. Bowen to request the Venezuelan Government to permit the affidavits which were delayed through the inaction of the Venezuelan consul at Philadelphia to be filed and admitted in the case of the New York and Bermudez Company as if they had been authenticated and filed in court within the properly limited time.

In reply I have the honor to report that it has not been necessary to ask the said permission from the Venezuelan Government, as the manager of the New York and Bermudez Company here, Captain Wright, informs me that the affidavits have arrived in time for presentation in due course of procedure according to the Venezuelan code.

I have, etc.,

Norman Hutchinson.