The Secretary of the Guatemalan Legation to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Most Excellent Sir: Licentiate Don Jorge Muñoz envoy extraordinario and minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Guatemala to your excellency’s Government, died in this city at 12 m. on the 22d day of the current month.

In accomplishing the painful duty of informing your excellency of the death of Mr. Muñoz, I beg you to accept the assurances of my highest consideration and appreciation, with which I subscribe myself your most devoted and faithful servant.

R. Bengoechea,
Secretary of the Legation.