Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1889

Mr. Thompson to Mr. Bayard.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Port au Prince, December 26, 1888.
(Received January 9, 1889.)

No. 240.]

Sir: I have received to-day your No. 140, of the 13th instant, and in reply must acknowledge the oversight of not informing the Department of the notification at this legation, on the 30th of October last, that the ports of Jacmel and Port de Paix were decreed under blockade. Such decree never took effect at Jacmel, which remains, as are all the other ports on the southern coast of Hayti, viz, Miragoane, Petit Goane, Jeremie, Jacmel, and Aux Cayes, open to foreign trade.

I have, etc.,

John E. W. Thompson.