838.00/3011: Telegram
The Minister in Haiti (Munro) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 7:27 p.m.]
94. Legation’s telegram No. 93, August 4, 2 p.m.43 The accord was signed this noon. Letters are being exchanged between the Financial Adviser and the Minister of Finance regarding indemnities for American civilians and regarding the service payments.
Colvin will be indemnified as already arranged receiving back pay to October 1st, 3 months extra pay at the rate of ten thousand and accrued leave at the same rate in addition to travel expenses home. Non-commissioned employees in the Public Works will receive 2 months pay plus accrued leave and travel expenses while other Americans in the Service Technique and Public Works will receive 9 months pay with travel expenses but without accrued leave.
The agreement between the Financial Adviser and the Minister of Finance regarding the service of payments reads as follows:
“Pending a new arrangement the service of payments by individual checks will be maintained in the form in which it is now operated. After determining the regularity of the ordonnances issued by Ministers in conformity with the budget and the laws and decrees granting credits, and the sufficiency of their justifying documents, the mandats [Page 505] de paiement of the Minister of Finance will be paid and the checks delivered accordingly to the interested parties.
The payment of claims which have not yet been accepted will be the subject of a subsequent arrangement.”
The budget itself will be published but not the agreements regarding indemnities and the service of payments. Text will be forwarded by air mail Friday.
Colonel Little issued a proclamation this morning repealing martial law.
- Not printed; it transmitted certain changes in the draft of the Haitianization accord.↩