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[Inclosure in No. 241.-Translation.]

The Sadr Azem to Mr. McDonald.

TEHERAN.

SIR: You have no doubt already heard of the awful occurrence which took place at Shahzadeb-Abdul-Azim, on Friday, the 17th of the month Zeekadeh, corresponding to the 1st of May, and that through the martyrdom and death of the victim, His Imperial Majesty the Shah, the whole of the people of this country are overwhelmed with the deepest grief.

While communicating the news of this calamitous event to your excellency I have at the same time most respectfully to inform you that on the night of the 18th (Christian style, the night of the 1st of May) His Imperial Majesty, the benefactor of his people, Muzaffar-ed-din Shah, Kajar, in the city of Tabriz, succeeded to the throne and was proclaimed King, and has confirmed me in the premiership, and charged me with the administration of the affairs of the country.

I take this opportunity to renew the assurances of my respect. Dated the 18th of Zeekadeh, 1313, corresponding to the 1st of May, 1896. [Seal of the Sadr Azem.]

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Lima, Peru, February 24, 1896. (Received March 13.) SIR: Referring to Department's No. 146, of December 31, 1895, in relation to "the hydrographic claim," I have the honor to inform you that I, on February 1, addressed a note to the Peruvian foreign office asking the payment of this long-standing and admittedly just claim.

In reply to this note, the minister of foreign affairs asked that I would call at foreign office on Saturday to discuss the claim. Being quite unwell, I sent my secretary, Mr. Neill, and Mr. Zevallos told him, in view of the great poverty of Peru and the condition of the public treasury, he could only offer in satisfaction of this claim 20,000 silver soles, 10,000 to be paid this year and 10,000 next year. I make haste to inform the Department and ask instructions.

In view of all the conditions here, I believe this offer is about the best solution of this matter that may be hoped for at an early date. I have, etc.,

J. A. MCKENZIE.

No. 162.]

Mr. Olney to Mr. McKenzie.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, April 24, 1896.

SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 283, of February 24 last, communicating to the Department the proposition made by the Peruvian Government to pay, in satisfaction of the claim of the members of the Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon, the sum of 20,000 silver soles, 10,000 to be paid this year and 10,000 next year.

The Department has communicated with the representative of five of the seven claimants and they are desirous of accepting the proposition of settlement. The Department has not been able thus far to locate the other claimants.

You are directed to accept the offer made by the Peruvian Government and arrange for the payment of the first moiety at as early a date as practicable.

Except in the cases of Sparrow and Noland the amounts claimed by the different members of the commission, or admitted to be due by

1 For previous correspondence regarding these claims see Foreign Relations, 1895, Part II, pp. 1036-1055.

Peru, do not appear from the papers on file here. It is believed that this information can be obtained from certain papers in the legation, copies of which were sent to Mr. Yrigoyen by your predecessor, Mr. Gibbs, in a note (No. 91) dated July 6, 1878. Please forward copies of such papers for use in the distribution of the money.

I am, etc.,

RICHARD OLNEY.

Mr. McKenzie to Mr. Olney.

No. 307.]

UNITED STATES LEGATION,

Lima, Peru, July 20, 1896. (Received Aug. 13.) SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith, payable to your order, a bill of exchange on New York, No. 67, for $2,415.46, United States currency, at thirty days' sight, being proceeds of a draft for 5,000 silver soles handed to me by the Peruvian Government in part payment of the 10,000 soles due this year in settlement of the Amazonas claim, together with my note of May 20, 1896, to the Peruvian minister for foreign affairs, and his reply, with a translation; also a note from Mr. D. Pattison, of the house of W. R. Grace & Co., Lima, together with quotations of current rates of exchange, and my note of July 18, 1896, to the minister for foreign affairs, etc., all of which are self-explanatory. I have, etc., J. A. MCKENZIE.

[Inclosure 1 in No. 307.]

Mr. McKenzie to Dr. Zevallos.

UNITED STATES LEGATION,
Lima, May 20, 1896.

Mr. MINISTER: Referring to the conversation between your excellency and the secretary of this legation on February 22 last, in relation to the settlement of the claims of the members of the Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon against Peru, in which you stated the Government of Peru would pay in full satisfaction of all claims 20,000 silver soles, 10,000 this year and 10,000 next year, etc., I now have the pleasure of notifying your excellency that I am authorized by the United States Government to accept your proposition, and will come to the Peruvian foreign office at any time your excellency may indicate to receive the first moiety and transmit it to the Secretary of State for distribution among the claimants.

Congratulating all parties concerned upon this friendly, honorable adjustment of a long-standing claim,

I avail myself, etc.,

[Inclosure 2 in No. 307.-Translation.] Dr. Zevallos to Mr. McKenzie.

J. A. MCKENZIE.

PERUVIAN FOREIGN OFFICE,
Lima, July 17, 1896.

Mr. MINISTER: In reply to your excellency's note, No. 73, of May 20 last, in which I am informed that the Government of the United States accepts the proposition of my Government to pay the claim of the members of the Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon the sum of 20,000

soles, 10,000 soles payable in this year and the balance in the course of next year, I have the honor to transmit to your excellency order (No. 18) for 5,000 soles against the treasury department to the order of your excellency on account of the first installment which has to be paid to you.

I am pleased to inform your excellency that in due course I will transmit the 5,000 soles due during the present year.

I am, etc.,

RICARDO ORTIZ DE ZEVALLOS.

[Inclosure 3 in No. 307.]

Mr. McKenzie to Dr. Zevallos.

UNITED STATES LEGATION,

Lima, July 18, 1896.

Mr. MINISTER: I am pleased to acknowledge receipt of your excellency's kind favor of yesterday, inclosing draft No. 18 for 5,000 silver soles upon the Peruvian treasury department, payable to my order, on account of the first installment of 10,000 soles, which has to be paid this year in settlement of the claims of the members of the Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon, etc.

I am also pleased to be informed by your excellency that in due course of time you will remit to me the remaining 5,000 soles due during the the present year.

I avail myself, etc.,

J. A. MCKENZIE.

RUSSIA.

ARREST OF AMERICAN SEALERS ON ROBBEN ISLAND.

Mr. Olney to Mr. Breckinridge.

[Telegram.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, November 13, 1895.

Reported seventeen sealers seized by Russian cruisers in Okhotsk. Wire briefly and report fully attainable information, especially nationality of vessels seized.

OLNEY.

Mr. Breckinridge to Mr. Olney.

[Telegram.]

ST. PETERSBURG, November 15, 1895.

No official news of sealer seizures.

BRECKINRIDGE.

No. 168.]

Mr. Breckinridge to Mr. Olney.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,

St. Petersburg, November 15, 1895. (Received Nov. 30.) SIR: I am in receipt of your telegram, communicating to me the reported seizure of seventeen sealers by Russian cruisers of the Sea of Okhotsk, and instructing me to wire briefly in regard to the matter, and to fully report attainable information, especially concerning the nationality of the vessels seized.

In accordance with this instruction, I at once called on Count Kapnitz, in charge of the Asiatic department of the foreign office, and learned from him that the Government had no information upon the subject. I left him a note calling for the information desired, and he promised to furnish me promptly with any information he might receive. This morning I telegraphed you that there was no official news of the seizure of sealers, copy of which telegram is given upon the overleaf.

It may be added that, so far as I have been able to learn, no information of any character has reached St. Petersburg upon this subject, except the report which had reached you and was communicated by me to the foreign office.

Count Kapnitz took occasion to say, with emphasis, that his Government would deal with great severity with seal poachers, and that they

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