Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Wharton to Mr. Douglass.

Department of State,
Washington, May 16, 1891.

No. 116.]

Sir: The Department is gratified to receive your No. 157, of the 27th ultimo, inclosing copies of correspondence, from which it appears that the Haitian Government promises to make an executive measure the proposed law repealing the existing law by which sailing vessels are detained in the ports of Haiti until the duties on their inward cargoes are paid.

I am, etc.,

William F. Wharton,
Acting Secretary.