File No. 738.3915/55.

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No. 849.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith the correspondence between this legation and the Haitian Government relative to the negotiation by our Government of a convention for arbitration of the frontier question between Haiti and Santo Domingo.

It is to be noted that the secretary of foreign relations states that the Haitian Government will be pleased to send to its minister at Washington instructions to request the American Government to negotiate the convention.

I have, etc.,

H. W. Furniss.