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

File No 817.51/1023

The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires of Nicaragua

No. 50

Department of State,
Washington, November 12, 1917.

Sir: In acknowledging receipt of your note dated October 29, I have the honor to inform you that the Government of the United States concurs in the determination of the Nicaraguan Government respecting the application of the sum of seventy thousand dollars, referred to in your telegram, from the remainder of the sum of three million dollars to be paid to the Government of Nicaragua, and now in the United States Treasury, to the payment of back salaries due to the Nicaraguan Government officials. The Secretary of the Treasury has been requested to place this sum to the order and for the credit of the Government of Nicaragua with Brown Brothers of New York City.

The Department of State has instructed the American Minister at Nicaragua, by cable, to inform Mr. Lindberg that he has been designated to approve the orders drawn against this sum by the Nicaraguan Minister of Finance.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing