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

File No. 838.15/44a

The Secretary of State to Minister Blanchard

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, December 11, 1916, 6 p.m.

Immediately inform Haitian Government that the President of the United States has made the following nominations for appointment by the President of Haiti under the terms of Article XIII of the Treaty of September 16, 1915, between the United States and Haiti: Civil Engineer Ernest E. Gayler, U. S. N., to be engineer; Surgeon Norman T. McLean, U. S. N., to be engineer in charge of sanitation.

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