File No. 817.51/1050
The Chargé d’Affaires of Nicaragua to the Secretary of State
Washington, November 20, 1917.
Your Excellency: I have been authorized by the Secretary of the Hacienda of Nicaragua to sign in his name the necessary checks for compliance with the provisions of the Chamorro-Bryan Treaty and the contracts concluded the 20th of October last which have been duly approved by Congress and now form part of the law of the Republic which I have the honor to represent. I now take the liberty, in consequence thereof, to beg that your excellency will approve and order the payment from the Canal Convention funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, of the following amounts:
| To the Banco Nacional of Nicaragua, Inc | $111,404.83 |
| To Brown Bros. & Co. and J. & W. Seligman | 530,000.00 |
| In payment of interest on $1,000,000 to November 1 | 211,184.14 |
| In payment of expenses to bankers | 26,512.66 |
| In payment of Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, equivalent of £168,008 4/7 at the rate of 4.75½ | 798,878.26 |
| Total | $1,677,979.89 |
The prompt payment of these amounts will prevent the damage which the interest on these sums will cause the economic situation of my country.
With assurances [etc.]