oncerning the additional articles of the Geneva Convention.

  I doubt not that Your Excellency will be pleased very soon to enable
  me to announce to the Federal Council that the Government of the
  Union also adheres for its part to the proposed _modus vivendi_, and
  in this expectation I offer to Your Excellency the expression of my
  very high consideration.

                                                           J.B. PIODA.

                              DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
                                           WASHINGTON, _May 10, 1898_.

  SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of May
  9, formally notifying me that the Spanish Government has accepted
  the proposition of the Federal Council concerning the additional
  articles of the Geneva Convention, and expressing the hope that you
  would be soon enabled to inform your government that the United
  States Government adheres for its part to the proposed _modus
  vivendi_.

  As you were advised in the verbal interview with the Second
  Assistant Secretary of State, to which you refer in your note of the
  ninth, I have already had the pleasure of informing you, by my
  official note of that date, that the United States Government would
  for its part treat as an effective _modus vivendi_ the additional
  articles of 1868, with the amendments and interpretations of
  Articles IX and X thereof appearing in the publication communicated
  to me by you. I trust that that note, which apparently had not
  reached your hands at the time of your note to me of the same date,
  has now been received by you and its contents transmitted to the
  Federal Council.

                  Be pleased to accept, etc.,
                                                      WILLIAM R. DAY.

The additional articles concerning the Maritime Hospital Service in war,
as modified by the _modus vivendi_, forming Articles VI to XV of the
Treaty of Geneva when formally ratified, are:

  ART. VI. The boats which, at their own risk and peril, during and
 