No. 648.
Mr. de Muruaga to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, has the honor to return to the Hon. T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State, as requested in his note of yesterday, the annexed memorandum* regulating the commercial relations between Spain and the United States.

The undersigned finds the text of the said document perfectly correct, and in harmony with the declarations made in the late notes exchanged for that purpose between Her Majesty’s legation and the Department of State, and he leaves to the honorable Mr. Bayard’s decision the naming the day and hour agreeable to him for proceeding to the signing and sealing of the same.

The undersigned, etc.,

E. de Muruaga.
  1. Published, p. 1034, infra.