Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 811.5241/78

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of War

Department of State,
Washington, April 13, 1914.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose copies of correspondence exchanged between this Department and the British Embassy at this Capital, on the subject of the applicability to Porto Rico of the Treaty of March 2, 1899, between the United States and Great Britain, concerning the tenure and disposition of real and personal property.

The Department will be glad to receive an expression of your views in the matter, as well as of those of the Governor of Porto Rico.

I have [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Robert Lansing