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File No. 10793.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guatemala.

Department of State,
Washington, January 6, 1908.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your polite communication of the 30th of November last, by which you inform this department that the Interoceanic Railway of Guatemala will be formally opened on the 15th of the present month, and are so good as to invite representation by the United States at the ceremonies.

In reply I am happy to inform your excellency that the President has been pleased to select Maj. Gen. George W. Davis, United States Army, retired, to represent the United States on this occasion.

I congratulate your excellency on the completion and inauguration of this enterprise, which will so materially add to the development and growth of the resources and industries of Guatemala.

I avail, etc.,

Robert Bacon.