Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Rockhill to Mr. Taylor.

Department of State,
Washington, October 2, 1896.

No. 581.]

Sir: Referring to the Department’s No. 576, of the 24th ultimo, so far as it relates to the claim of Messrs. Bauriedel & Co., agents of certain American tobacco importing houses, to be allowed to export from Cuba tobacco purchased before the date of the Governor-General’s prohibitory decrees, I now inclose copy of a later dispatch¹ from our consul-general at Habana transmitting the evidence furnished by the claimants to prove their case.

I am, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill,
Acting Secretary.

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