810.154/235
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Panama (Davis)
Sir: In the Department’s telegraphic response1 to your telegram No. 46 of July 11, 11 a.m., which you will of course have already received, you have been informed that the Department perceives no objection to the Commission’s acceptance of the office quarters offered by the Panamanian Government. In that instruction it was suggested that should an appropriate occasion offer you might express through the proper officials your Government’s appreciation of their Government’s offer.
[Page 287]There are transmitted herewith two copies of the budget2 mentioned in the second paragraph of the Department’s instruction to you of July 1, no copy of which, your telegram under acknowledgment states, accompanied that instruction. The second copy of the budget is for delivery by you to the engineers since, from the copy of their instruction enclosed with the instruction of July 1 to you, you will observe a copy of that budget should have gone also to them. Possibly their copy also failed to go.
The Department would like to have you ascertain whether the instruction to the engineers bore a date and, if not, wishes you to affix to it the date July 1, 1930. The reason for making this request is that the Department’s file copy of the instruction to the engineers has been found to be undated. It should of course bear the same date as the instruction to you with which it was sent for delivery by you.
As soon as the Panamanian Government’s request for this Government’s cooperation, to which the third numbered paragraph of your telegram of July 11 relates, shall have reached the Department from the Director General of the Pan American Union you will be requested by telegraph officially to present the engineers to the appropriate Panamanian authorities so that they may properly offer to cooperate with the Panamanian Government in the reconnaissance surveys.
Very truly yours,