Mr. Hay to Mr. Sickles.
Washington , March 21, 1902 .
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Storer’s No. 642, of the 3d instant, reporting the position assumed by the Spanish authorities in the case of Antonio Gisbert y Bayot.
In reply I have to say that the Department is of opinion that it is perhaps not unreasonable for those authorities to require Mr. Gisbert to show the place of his residence on April 11, 1899, the date of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace.
As his mother has gone to Manila to obtain the necessary evidence, no further action seems to be required at this time.
I am, etc.,