Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Olney to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, November 23, 1895.

No. 257.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 21st instant, accompanied by an approved minute of the privy council in reference to the discriminating tax of $1 levied upon American vessels entering or clearing from Canadian ports.

A copy of this correspondence has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom I shall also be glad to forward, upon its receipt, a copy of your promised further note in reply to mine of the 31st ultimo upon that subject.

I have, etc.,

Richard Olney

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