File No. 2618/4–5.

Minister Bryan to the Secretary of State.

No. 279.]

Sir: I have the honor to confirm your cable message of this date as follows,a and to state that the Diario do Governo of the 24th instant published the text of the said agreement, a copy of which I transmit herewith.

In reply to your No. 113 of January 11, 1907, File No. 2618/2, I have the honor to state that on the 8th of January the King of Portugal ratified the agreement extending to Porto Rico the provisions of the commercial agreement between the United States and Portugal, as reported in my dispatch No. 277 of January 22.

I have, etc.,

Charles Page Bryan.
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