The Cuban Minister to the Secretary of State.

No. 206.]

Excellency: I had the pleasure to receive a communication from Mr. Thomas Morrison, Chief of the Bureau of Accounts of the Department of State, including a check for $500 in payment of the claim of [Page 280] Luciano F. Arestuche on account of injuries suffered at the hands of American soldiers during the military occupation of Cuba.

Thanking you in the name of my government and my own for this act of justice, I take, etc.,

Gonzales de Quesada.