Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 838.15/15

The Minister of Haiti to the Secretary of State

[Translation]

Legation of Haiti,
Washington, July 7, 1916.

Mr. Secretary of State: I had the honor to receive the note, dated the 5th instant,⁴ by which your excellency informed me that, in accordance with Article XIII of the Convention of September 16, 1915, between the Republic of Haiti and the United States, the President of the United States had nominated Lieutenant Edgar Garfield Oberlin, United States Navy, as one of the engineers who are to supervise and direct the sanitary service and the public works of Haiti and that this nomination had been communicated to my Government through the American Legation at Port au Prince.

In thanking your excellency for this communication I hasten to inform you that the President of Haiti has approved the nomination made by the President of the United States.

Accept [etc.]

Solon Ménos

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