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

File No. 817.51/1051

[Untitled]

No. 54

Department of State,
Washington, December 3, 1917.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of November 22, in which you request that $130,000 of the $155,000 allotted by agreement of the United States and Nicaragua for the payment of arrears of salaries by your Government, be remitted as before, and that the remaining $25,000 be deposited in a bank in Washington, and to inform you that this Government has taken pleasure in complying with your request.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing