Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

American Legation,
Santo Domingo City, January 16, 1904.

No. “N.”]

Sir: I have the honor to state to the Department that Mr. Férère, the minister of foreign relations, has not yet replied to our note that Department instructed me to send, in regard to the license tax.

Our merchants are being pressed to pay this unjust tax, and when they refuse the Government refuses to permit them to take their merchandise from the custom-house.

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I am, etc.,

W. F. Powell.