Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Memorandum.

Department of State,
Washington , October 10, 1902 .

The request in the memorandum of the Belgian legation dated the 6th instant, that the United States vessel at Cape Haitien be authorized to concert measures with the Belgian consul there for the protection of common interests in the Bayeux plantation, was communicated to the Navy Department.

That Department wrote on the date above referred to, that instructions had been issued to that end.