Office of the Historian
No. 357.

Mr. Langston to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Port-au-Prince, Hayti, March 21, 1885. (Received April 15.)
No. 726.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 712, dated February 4, 1885, I, have the honor to advise the Department that on the 13th instant Mr. Eugene V. Garrido was paid by me $2,000, the sum collected from the Haytian Government for personal injury done him on the 22d and 23d days of September, 1883.

His receipt for the sum named is on file in this legation.

His satisfaction and thanks, in view of the action and success had in his case, are thorough and cordial.

I am, &c.,

JOHN MERCER LANGSTON.