Mr. Powell to Mr.
Hay.
American Legation,
Port au
Prince, August 25,
1904.
No. 1510.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose to the
Department the correspondence that has passed between this legation and
the department of foreign relations regarding the law affecting the
status of Syrians that have become American citizens through
naturalization, and which law has recently been put in force.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Mr. Férère to
Mr. Powell.
Department of State for Foreign Relations,
Port au Prince, August 19, 1904.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch of the 8th instant, to
which I have given my most serious attention.
This department esteems—its opinion is certainly that of your
legation—that the Syrians, naturalized Americans, should no longer
be considered, from the point of view of their original nationality,
and they escape thereby from the measures prescibed by the law of
August 10, 1903. Besides, Mr. Minister, you have probably not failed
to remark that the Government of the Republic extends its solicitude
on all foreigners whatsoever may be their nationality, who reside on
the Haitian territory, and that it applies itself especially to
protect the citizens of the United States, on account of the close
ties of friendship that unite so happily our two countries.
Please accept, etc.,
