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THE WHITE HOUSE
JUN 21 1913
RECEIVED

ACK'D JUN 23 1913 C.L.

June 20, 1913.

My dear Mr. President:-

I sent you a few days ago a suggestion in regard to the purchase
of the Mole St. Nicholas in Haiti. As Governor Osborn will
leave Monday, I think he ought to have some general instructions as
to his course of procedure.

If you will refer to my letter, you will see that it covered
three points: First, the size of the concession that we should ask. I
suggested a strip of land twenty miles wide, measured from the center
of the mouth of the harbor, the strip to run back to a point ten miles
beyond the eastern limit of the harbor so as to give us not only the
harbor but enough land around it to safeguard the harbor from land attack.
The second suggestion was that we assure the Haitian Government
that those desiring to remain on this strip could become American citizens
and that those not desiring to remain upon the strip could sell
their property to this Government at its market value.

If you will give me your views upon this subject and upon any
other subjects which occur to you, I should be glad to bring them to
the attention of Governor Osborn so that he may be the better qualified

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