Letter

JOHN DAVIS, Acting Secretary to John Mercer Langston, November 17, 1884

Author

JOHN DAVIS, Acting Secretary

Recipient

John Mercer Langston

Date

November 17, 1884

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 235. Mr. Davis to Mr. Langston.

Department of State, Washington, November 17, 1884.

No. 307.]

Sir: I have received your No. 680, of October 30 last, accompanied by a copy of a law recently passed by the Legislative Assembly of Hayti, appropriating $588,418 to pay claims against that Republic on account of the riots of September 22 and 23, 1883, at Port au Prince. You add that no provision has been made in this sum to compensate American citizens for their losses on that occasion, and say that the proposed method of liquidating those claims covered by that appropriation has been the subject of a formal protest by the representative of Great Britain. The result of this you are awaiting with interest, and meanwhile you declare your intention to insist upon the payment of all American claims in the manner heretofore demanded by this Government.

Your action meets with the Department’s approval.

I am, &c.,

JOHN DAVIS,
Acting Secretary.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.