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  4. Document 890

Mr. Hay to Mr. Storer.

Department of State,
Washington , July 1, 1902 .
No. 447.]

Sir: The Department has been gratified to receive Mr. Sickles’s No. 667, of the 12th ultimo, reporting that the recruiting office of Barcelona had exempted Mr. Antonio Gisbert y Bayot from military service in Spain.

It appears to the Department that no other conclusion was possible, as Mr. Gisbert was a native inhabitant of the Philippines, under the protection of the United States, whose status is, according to the second paragraph of Article IX of the treaty of peace, determinable by Congress.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.