File No. 812.512/576.

The Secretary of State to Vice Consul Bevan.

No. 786.]

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 1369 of March 6, 1915, transmitting a copy of a notice in regard to the payments on the stamp tax for petroleum, [etc.].

You are instructed to report the developments in this case.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Wilbur J. Carr.