File No. 817.51/294.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

Sir: The Department has received your No. 161, of the 30th ultimo, transmitting a copy of the decree authorizing the financial arrangement between Messrs. Brown Brothers and Company and Messrs. J. and W. Seligman and Company, agents for the Republic of Nicaragua, and the Ethelburga Syndicate, Limited, of London.

Copies of your despatch and its enclosure have been sent to Mr. Ernest H. Wands.

I am [etc.]

P. C. Knox.