File No. 847/143.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Panama to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Translation.]

I take pleasure in informing you that the most excellent Señor Don José Domingo de Obaldia took possession of the Presidency of the Republic on the 1st instant and appointed his cabinet as follows: Secretary of foreign relations, the undersigned; secretary of government and justice, Ramon M. Valdes; secretary of the treasury, Carlos A. Mendoza; secretary of public instruction, Eusebio A. Morales; secretary of Fomento, J. José E. Lefevre.

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