File No. 882.42/2.
The Secretary of State to
the President of the American Colonization
Society.
Department of State,
Washington,
June 27, 1911.
Sir: I transmit herewith copy of a
communication which has been received from Mr. Ernest Lyon, Liberian
Consul General in this city, in which he states that he has been
informed by you that there is $60,000 in the custody of the American
Colonization Society belonging to the Government of Liberia and that in
following out a resolution passed by the Society the President of
Liberia has been requested to designate an officer of the Department to
approve the account of your Society for the Donovan Fund, to receive the
balance due, and give proper acquittance to the Society.
The Department will be glad to be fully advised upon the subject of Mr.
Lyon’s letter in order that the matter may receive proper
consideration.
I am [etc.]
[Inclosure.]
The Liberian Consul
General to the Secretary of
State.
Liberian Consulate General,
Baltimore,
June 12, 1911.
Sir: By direction of the President of
Liberia, I have the honor to inform your excellency that the
President of the Colonization Society at Washington,
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D. C., has notified him that there is
a balance of sixty thousand dollars in the custody of the Society
belonging to Liberia, which he is ready to turn over to the proper
authorities. The Colonization Society, unaware of the presence of a
representative for Liberia at Washington, has by resolution
requested the President of Liberia to “designate some officer of the
United States Department to approve the account of the American
Colonization Society for the Donovan Fund, to receive the balance
due, and to give a proper acquittance to the Society.”
In compliance with the Society’s request, I have been instructed by
the Liberian Government to request your excellency to designate such
an officer, to act in the manner suggested in said communication.
The service of said officer and any other expenses arising therefrom
will be a proper charge against the fund. I have been instructed
further to sign all agreements with the State Department and the
Society necessary to carry out their intention, in order to secure
to Liberia the amount now due her.
Dr. Johnson, the President of the Society, has informed me that he
will be leaving the United States in a few days and will be absent
for some months; therefore respectfully requests that action be
taken before his departure.
With the assurance of a favorable reply, I have [etc.]
