File No. 811.34537/118.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.2

No. 602.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the Department’s instruction (No. 186) of the 11th instant, regarding an error committed in the English text of paragraph 11 [etc.].

I have the honor herewith to return our copy of the agreement in which, as the Department will perceive, the error has been appropriately corrected and sanctioned by Mr. Sanguily’s initials and my own in the margin. I personally examined the Cuban copy of the agreement and found that the same error did not occur in it.

I have [etc.]

A. M. Beaupré.
  1. Receipt acknowledged by the Department on February 4, without further instructions.