The Secretary of State to Minister Squiers.

No. 471.]

Sir: Refering to Mr. Sleeper’s No. 990, of June 20 last,a I inclose copy of a letter from the Lambert Pharmacal Company of St Louisa protesting against the Cuban patent-medicine law.

The Department would be pleased to receive a report from you on the subject.

The action of the departmental government of Habana reported by Mr. Sleeper appears to have been confirmed and made general by an order of the Secretary of the Interior, issued November 12, 1904.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.
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