Minister Lyon to the Secretary of State.

No. 232.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Liberian commission referred to in my No. 222, diplomatic, and dated January 25, 1908, consisting of Ex-president Dr. G. W. Gibson, Vice President J. J. Dossen, and Attorney C. B. Dunbar, together with C. R. Branch and T. J. R. Faulkner as attachés, will leave here the 17th instant, via Hamburg, Germany, for the United States of America.

I have, etc.,

Ernest Lyon.