Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Olney to Mr. Strobel.

Department of State,
Washington , June 4, 1896 .

No. 87.]

Sir: I have received your No. 75, of April 6 last, reporting that several American citizens having applied to your legation to intervene in order that their children, born in Chile, might be exempted from service in the national guard of that Republic, you had declined to do so, because, while by our law they were American citizens, they were by the Chilean constitution also citizens of that Republic and continued to reside therein.

Your action is approved.

I am, etc.,

Richard Olney.