The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Morgan.

No. 91.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 259, of the 9th instant, reporting that, according to a recent decision of the supreme court of Cuba, the rights of the owner of a foreign patent are not impaired by registration of it in Cuba by another person.

Copies of your dispatch have been forwarded to the Interior Department and the Merchants’ Association of New York, and it has been suggested to the latter body that steps might be taken to bring a test case of piracy of a trade-mark before the supreme court of Cuba.

I am, sir, etc.,

Robert Bacon.