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The Secretary of State to the Minister of Panama.

Department of State,
Washington, June 7, 1906.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th, in which you extend to me a cordial invitation, on behalf of the Government and the people of Panama, to visit that Republic after the close of the international conference at Rio de Janeiro.

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I have the honor to say in reply that I deeply appreciate the good will thus shown, and that it will give me great pleasure to accept the courteous invitation which you extend to me in behalf of the Government and people of a Republic united by the closest ties to that of the United States.

Accept, etc.,

Elihu Root.