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File No. 822.124/233.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

No. 128.
American Legation,
Quito, August 6, 1912.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, of the Department’s telegraphic instruction of July 30 and to enclose herewith a [Page 432] copy of my note No. 85 to the Ecuadorian Foreign Office, which embodied the instruction above noted. The matter has been referred to the Junta de Sanidad of Guayaquil, which under the law must give its consent to the disbursement of funds for purposes of sanitation.

I have [etc.]

Rutherfurd Bingham.
[Inclosure.]

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

No. 85.]
American Legation,
Quito, July 31, 1912.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor, referring to your excellency’s note No. 357, dated July 28, 1912, to state that I have been instructed by my Government to inform your excellency that there are certain objections to the proposed convention of which your excellency treats in your memorandum of May 6, 1912.

My Government, before entering into any convention, believes that it would be most desirable to know the result of the preliminary examination by the board of experts referred to in my note No. 81 of the 27th instant.

I have therefore the honor to enquire whether the Government of Ecuador desires to expend the eighty-one hundred dollars gold ($8,100.00) necessary for the expenses of this board, before considering further the question of the convention.

I avail [etc.]

Rutherfurd Bingham.