Minister Russell to the Secretary of State.
Curacao , September 27, 1907 .
(Received 3.50 p.m.)
Venezuelan Government has answered my note, sent in accordance with your cable instructions in accepting first payment, and says that it considers moneys received by me as paid on account of all the awards of the mixed commission of 1903, including the award to the Orinoco Steamship Co., this being in compliance with the terms of the signed protocols, and that it does not consider that there is any question pending in regard to award to said steamship company, as in its three notes it closed discussion in regard to revising the awards to the Orinoco Steamship Co and the Orinoco Co (Ltd.) and Manoa Co (Ltd.).