Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 712.
Mr. Preston to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

Legation of Hayti,
Washington, December 3, 1888. (Received December 4.)

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hayti, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note which the honorable Secretary of State has addressed to him on the 28th of November ultimo, on the subject of the affair of the steamer Haytian Republic.

On the same date the undersigned, for his part, communicated to the Secretary of State that he had received instructions from his Government relative to the same affair.

The undersigned hopes to be in a position to send to the Secretary of State, in a very few days, his reply to the note of the 28th of the past month.

The undersigned has the honor to renew to the Secretary of State the assurances of his very high consideration.

Stephen Preston.