No. 56.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Alvensleben .

Dear Mr. von Alvensleben: Responding to your personal note of the 25th instant, I beg to inform you that the question of continued exaction of tonnage dues on the vessels of the North German Line, arriving at New York from Bremen via Southampton, has been brought by me to the attention of the President.

It is now being investigated and I trust that all cause of complaint by the German vesselowners will speedily be removed.

Yours, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.