Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 193.
Mr. Schuyler to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Legation of the United States,
Athens, June 6, 1884. (Received June 24.)

No. 77.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatches No. 65, dated February 23, and No. 68, dated March 10, 1884, about the importation of American pork into Greece, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy and a translation of a note received from the minister of foreign affairs, dated May 19 (31).

It will be seen by this note that the importation of American pork is permitted only on a certificate of a Greek consul that no disease exists in the place of origin. This rule is applicable to all importations of pork from every country, and, as it existed at the time when the restriction on American pork was abolished, I had already taken it for granted that it applied also to importations from the United States.

I am, &c.,

EUGENE SCHUYLER.

[Inclosure in No. 77.—Translation.]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ministry of foreign affairs, referring to its note verbale of February 23 last, has the honor to inform this legation that while authorizing the importation into Greece of salted pork and other pork products of American origin, the department of the interior meant to permit this importation only under certain conditions, viz, that for importing these articles of food it is necessary to have a certificate of the local authorities, approved by the consul of Greece, stating that neither trichinosis nor any contagious malady to which swine are subject exists in the place of origin.

Mr. Contostavlos seizes this occasion to renew to Mr. Schuyler the assurance of his high consideration.