File No. 713.001/29.
The Secretary of State to
the American Chargé d’Affaires.
Department of State,
Washington, June 27,
1911.
No. 890.]Sir: I inclose herewith a copy of a letter from
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, stating that he takes great pleasure in authorizing
you to draw on Mr. Franks under the conditions stated.
You are accordingly instructed to take the action requested in Mr.
Carnegie’s letter of May 22.
I am [etc.],
[Inclosure.]
Mr. Andrew
Carnegie to the Secretary of
State.
Dear Sir: In fulfillment of my promise to
renew my former offer of one hundred thousand dollars for the
erection of the Central American Court of Justice at San José,
replacing that destroyed at Cartago, I beg you to instruct the
United States minister at San José to inform the Costa Rican
Government that he, our minister, is authorized to draw upon Mr. R.
A. Franks, president of the Home Trust Co., Hoboken, N. J., in sums
of twenty-five thousand dollars, as the work progresses, to the
extent of one hundred thousand dollars, duly forwarding Mr. Franks
therewith certificates of work done as given to him by the Costa
Rican authorities.
We leave the construction of the court and selection of site to the
Government of Costa Rica.
Very truly, yours,
