File No. 9160/37.
The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Sands.
[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Department of State,
Washington, November 15, 1907.
Washington, November 15, 1907.
Mr. Bacon acknowledges Mr. Sands’s telegrams of November 6 and 13 and informs him that he is authorized to settle on basis of money indemnification of victims and judicial punishment of minor offenders and the publication of the arrangement, providing the indemnity is promptly paid and immediate and energetic prosecution of the minor offenders is promised. States that his suggestion as to fixing indemnity at $5,000 for each of the two injured negroes is approved.