Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 817.51/888

The Secretary of State to Minister Jefferson

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, February 7, 1917, 4 p.m.

Your February 5, 10 a.m. Department deposited to-day with Brown Brothers and Co. New York, Treasury warrant for 250,000 dollars to the order of the Government of Nicaragua under Article 3 of the Treaty.

They have been instructed to cable this money to the National Bank of Nicaragua at Managua to be held subject to the order of the Minister of Finance and Clifford D. Ham, Committee appointed by the Nicaraguan Government with the approval of the Government of the United States to disburse this sum.

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