The Acting Secretary of State to the Italian Ambassador.

No. 277.]

Excellency: Referring to previous correspondence with regard to representation by the United States at the agricultural conference to be held at Rome this month, I have the honor to inform you that Mr. W. P. Hill, master of the Pennsylvania State Grange, who is at present in Rome, has been appointed an additional delegate on the part of the United States to the conference in question.

Accept, etc.,

Herbert H. D. Peirce.