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

The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister

Department of State,
Washington, December 3, 1901.

My dear Mr. Minister: Owing to the omission of the first part of the final sentence in Article IV, the last clause which we have agreed to maintain in the treaty is not quite clear as it stands in your text. It is necessary to modify it somewhat to supply the hiatus, and I submit the enclosed. Please let me have your opinion as to this suggested modification.

I am [etc.]

John Hay

[Inclosure]

Suggested final clause in Article IV

The colonial treasury shall continue to pay the yearly allowances now given to heretofore removed functionaries appointed in the islands but holding no royal commission, unless those allowances may have until now been paid in Denmark.