Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Rockhill to Mr. Uhl.

Department of State,
Washington , August 15, 1896 .

No. 137.]

Sir: I have to inform you that your dispatches Nos. 99, of the 27th, and 100, of the 31st ultimo, respectively, both in regard to the subject of the tonnage taxes, light, and other dues unlawfully imposed on American vessels in German ports, have been received and copies thereof sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for his information.

The Department fully approves your note of the 31st ultimo to the Imperial foreign office on the subject.

I am, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill,
Acting Secretary.