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tory to us; our jjower of attorney to Henry H. French being revoked, 

 We will send you in a few days such proofs of the detail of our dam- 

 age as we may be able to collect. 



Mr. Sanford will doubtless inform the department that he has agreed 

 to give us the benefit of the papers he has filed in behalf of P. S. 

 -Shelton and Sampson & Tappan. 



We are, very respectfullv, your obedient servants, 



CHAS. U. COTTING, 



Executor. 

 JOHN H. B. LANG. 



Hon. Lewis Cass, 



Secretm-y of State. 



Mr. Cass to Mr. Turpin. 



No. 6.] ■ Department of State, 



WasMngton, September 3, 1858. 



Sir: Herewith I transmit the copy of a letter of the 31st ultimo, 

 from the representatives of Lang & Delano, who are claimants against 

 Venezuela for their eviction from the Aves Island in 1853, by which 

 you will learn their willingness to accept fifty thousand dollars 

 ($50,000) as the minimum basis of compromise; with that government, 

 out of which, however, they bind themselves to satisfy the claim of 

 Wheelwright & Cobb, who, from the first presentation of the subject, 

 have likewise claimed indemnity. 



This arrangement will enable you to present the Aves Island claim 

 to the government of Venezuela for settlement as an entirety. ' It re- 

 duces the amount of indemnity from over a million of dollars to 

 $200,000, and it is confidently expected that you will be enabled to 

 announce, in your earliest communication from Caraccas after receipt 

 of this dispatch, the final adjustment of the matter upon the terms 

 proposed. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



LEWIS CASS. 



E. A. Turpin, Esq., - 

 c&c, dec, &c. 



Mr. Sanford to Mr. Cass. 



New York, September 8, 1858. 

 Sir: Since the departure of Mr. Turpin some circumstances have 

 occurred in relation to the claims of Messrs. Shelton & Co. and 

 Messrs. Lang & Delano & Co., of which I have advised you in my 

 letter of 2d instant. Conforming to the earnest desire of the depart- 

 ment in making which I understood it was influenced by considera- 



