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The American Minister in Haiti (Armour) to the Haitian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Blanchet)66
Excellency: With reference to the Agreement signed today between the United States and Haiti, my Government understands the statement in the first sentence of Article VIII that “the Fiscal Representative will have under his direction, until the complete amortization, or prior refunding of the loan under reference, the Customs Service and the application of the laws relative thereto” to mean that he shall collect the customs duties and have under his direction the Customs Service and the application of the laws relative thereto.
It is further understanding of my Government that the financial arrangement signed today has for its purpose the better execution of the Treaty of September 16, 1915 and provision for the financial control envisaged in Article VIII of the Protocol of October 3, 1919.
Accept [etc.]
- The Haitian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs addressed a similar note, in French, on the same date, to the American Minister in Haiti (not printed). The texts of these notes were transmitted to the Department by the Minister in Haiti in his despatch No. 101, August 7; received August 10.↩