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June 23, 1913

My dear Mr. Secretary:

I should have covered the points
about the Mole St. Nicholas more fully and explicitly
than I did in my previous letter. I
fully concur in the three suggestions you make:
first, that the size of the concession that we
should ask should be 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; second,
that we assure the Haitian government that
those desiring to remain on this strip should become
American citizens and that those not desiring
to remain upon the strip could sell their property
to this government at its market value.

Cordially and faithfully yours,

Hon. William Jennings Bryan,
Secretary of State

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