Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Conger.

Department of State,
Washington, March 30, 1893.

No. 248.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge your No. 390 of the 10th ultimo reporting that, in view of the protest of your legation against the violation of our commercial arrangement with Brazil in the imposition by the State of Bahia of an export tax on skins, the tax has been removed.

This information is very satisfactory to the Department, and will be communicated to the consul at Bahia who first reported the violation to the Department.

I am, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.