Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 353.117R33/1.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Consul at St. Michael’s.

No. 345.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 27, 1913.

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 765 of February 27, 1913, concerning the action of the officials in the Azores, especially in the district of Horta, in requiring military service, or imposing fines in lieu thereof, in cases of persons born in the Azores whose fathers, also natives of the Azores, had previously obtained naturalization as citizens of the United States.

I enclose herewith, for your information, a copy of an instruction of this day to the Legation at Lisbon concerning the matter.²

I am [etc.]

For

Mr. Adee, Acting Secretary

:

Wilbur J. Carr.

2. See the next paper.