File No. 4567/1.
Chargé White to the Secretary of State.
Buenos Aires, January 7, 1907.
Sir: I have the honor to report that, being very desirous that permanent record may be made in the United States of the birth of a son, of which my wife was delivered on August 9 last, and having no knowledge of any provision for the registration of the children of American citizens resident abroad in diplomatic capacity, I have with much hesitation ventured in the following manner to make a record of the same for the sake of possible future contingencies, to wit: I have had the birth of the child recorded at the civil registry (registro civil) in this city in the manner prescribed by the laws of this country for all its residents. Of this record I have had two copies made, which I have had certified to by the American consul-general in this city, Mr. Alban G. Snyder, as being true transcriptions of the record in question. One of these copies thus certified and accompanied by a translation I transmit herewith and respectfully request that the same may be given a place in the department’s archives, not only as a permanent record of the fact of the birth of the child, but as evidence of the circumstances of his birth that constitute the same a birth within the territory of the United States.
Should any provision for the recording of the birth of children of the diplomatic representatives of the United States exist, I beg to be informed of the same.
I have, etc.,