839.51/4413
The Dominican Legation to the Department of State
The Legation of the Dominican Republic has the honor to refer to the memorandum of May 12, 1936, from the Department of State in which there is expressed an interest in knowing whether the application of $225,000.00 to the irrigation service of the Dominican Republic might cause some delay in the payment of some claims of citizens of [Page 469] the United States of America, concerning which claims notes have passed between the Legation of the United States of America at Ciudad Trujillo and the Dominican Foreign Office; and in reply it is a pleasure to advise the Department of State that for the examination and payment of credits and claims against the Dominican public treasury—among which there figure the said claims of citizens of the United States of America—there has been voted Law No. 1096 of April 29, 1936, and that application of the amount of $225,000.00 to roads, highways and irrigation canals, contemplated in the same law, will cause no delay in the execution of the system established by the said law before the examination and payment of credits and claims against the Dominican public treasury, and it is a pleasure to add as evident proof of the interest with which my Government gives attention to the cancellation of the floating debt, that down to date there have been paid $1,700,-000.00 in a relatively short space of time.