File No 838.001 Au 4/2.]

The Secretary of State to the American Minister to Haiti.

[Translation]

Sir: I enclose; with office copy, a letter addressed by the President to His Excellency Tancrède Auguste, acknowledging his letter of August 19 last in which he announced his election, on the 8th of that month, to the Presidency of the Republic of Haiti and his entrance upon the duties of that office.

You will forward the copy to the Foreign Office and deliver the original in the manner most agreeable to His Excellency.

I am [etc]

P. C. Knox.
[Inclosure]

The President of the Republic of Haiti to the President of the United States of America.

Dear and Great Friend: I hasten to inform Your Excellency that the National Assembly, in its session of August 8 current, has honored me with its high confidence in calling me to the Presidency of the Republic. Having taken the 9th of the same month the oath required by the Constitution in order to assume the exercise of the Executive Power, it is peculiarly agreeable to me to inform Your Excellency of this important event and to give you the assurance that in the elevated post to which the esteem of my fellow citizens has just called me I shall use every endeavor to maintain and to develop the friendly relations which so happily exist between our two countries. In the meantime, I express my sincere wishes for the personal happiness of Your Excellency as well as for the prosperity of the Nation whose destinies have been confided to you, and I avail myself, with pleasure, of this occasion to address to Your Excellency the assurances of the high esteem and of the unalterable friendship with which I am [etc.].

T. Auguste.
[Inclosure]

The President of the United States to the President of Haiti.

Great and Good Friend: I have received the letter of the 19th of August, in which Your Excellency announced your election, on the 8th of the same month, to the Presidency of the Republic of Haiti, and your entrance upon the duties of the office.

I cordially reciprocate the sentiments you express for the continuance of the friendly relations which have heretofore existed between the United States and Haiti, and I assure Your Excellency of my best wishes for your personal welfare and for the prosperity of the Republic over which you have been called to preside.

Your Good Friend,

Wm. H. Taft.