File No. 353.117R33/5.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Consul at St. Michael’s.
Washington, September 18, 1913.
Sir: With reference to your despatch No. 721 of October 17, 1912, and other correspondence concerning the summoning for military service in the Azores of sons of naturalized citizens of this country, the Department sends you herewith a copy of despatch No. 133, of August 2, 1913, from the Charge d’Affaires at Lisbon, together with a copy of its enclosure: a translation of a note of August 2, 1913, from the Portuguese Foreign Office’. Your special attention is called to the statement in the note that” the consular authorities of the United States might aid greatly in the solution of the difficulty, and in the interest of the young men, by making known to the young men who present themselves to make the declaration required by the American law that they must observe before the Portuguese municipality the formality which the law of the territory prescribes.” The Department desires that you follow this suggestion as far as possible.
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