714.1515/174
The Chief of the Guatemalan Special Mission (Toledo Herrarte) to the Acting Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have had the honor to receive Your Excellency’s kind note of the 16th instant in which you were pleased to say in reply to my note of March 1019 that the Government of Honduras had expressed through the Minister of the United States at Tegucigalpa its readiness to start now the economic inspection suggested by the Most Excellent Mr. Secretary Lansing, and that the Department of State is consequently engaged in organizing the technical Commission of Inspection that is to operate under the auspices of the American Geographical Society.
Your Excellency deigned to add that the cost would amount to about thirty thousand dollars, fifteen thousand of which falls to the share of Guatemala, and that when that sum is available and my Government gives its consent to having the inspection carried out on those terms, Your Excellency will be pleased to submit to me a detailed statement of the plan on which the Commission intends to proceed.
In reply I take pleasure in informing Your Excellency that my Government gladly concurs in the suggestion offered by the Honorable [Page 105] Department of State; that it places through me at its disposal its quota of fifteen thousand dollars and, lastly, that in addition to its contribution it will take special pleasure in extending to the commissioners all the assistance and facilities they may need in the discharge of their duties.
Awaiting the later statement which Your Excellency was pleased to promise, I take [etc.]
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