File No. 817.51/599.
The Minister of Nicaragua to the Secretary of State.
Washington, October 31, 1913.
Excellency: I have the honor to answer your excellency’s note of October 27 in which you kindly enclosed a copy of the letter sent on October 6 by your excellency to Messrs. Brown Brothers & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co., bankers of New York City, in which letter your excellency states that in Nicaraguan matters you have acted and intend in future to act solely in the capacity of adviser; of all of which I take due note.
I take the liberty of expressing to your excellency on behalf of my Government and for myself our thanks for the inestimable services which your excellency has lent to Nicaragua during the short time you have occupied the high position of Secretary of State of the United States of America.
With assurances [etc.]