File No. 837.51/294
The Cuban Minister ( De Céspedes) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to deliver to your excellency the letter1 which accredits me as having been vested by the honorable President of the Republic of Cuba with full and general power and authority to negotiate and conclude with your excellency’s Government and in the name and as representative of the Republic of Cuba the loan of 15,000,000 pesos in bonds of the Treasury of Cuba authorized by the law of July 30 of last year, and to deliver the bonds and receive the proceeds thereof.
I beg your excellency to be pleased to advise the Treasury Department that I have presented the said credentials to the Department of State in order to perfect the loan of fifteen millions to my Government by the sale or on the security of the said bonds under the instructions I have received from the President and the Secretary of State of Cuba.
I reiterate [etc.]
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