The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.
Washington, June 27, 1905.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. O’Beirne’s note No. 113, of May 26 last, in which he calls the Department’s attention, on behalf of British subjects interested in the Santo Domingo Improvement Company and the companies allied to it, to the position of those companies as effected by the President’s order of [Page 378] March 28, 1905, providing for the collection and disposal of the Santo Domingo revenues.
In regard to the interests involved in the claims of the Improvement Company and its allied companies, as affected by the President’s order above referred to, I have the honor to state that the President is unable at present to recognize any special rights and privileges of the said companies over any other creditors, American or foreign, of Santo Domingo. If such rights and privileges should be eventually accorded it could not be until after the Senate has taken final action on the convention now before it between the United States and Santo Domingo.
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