Mr. Adee to Prince Wrede.
Washington, July 31, 1896.
Sir: Referring to your note of the 27th of May last in regard to the case of Amalie Roeber, who is now confined in an insane hospital in Austria-Hungary, I have the honor to inform you that the Department has received a letter from the executive office of the State of New York inclosing an official report from the State commission of lunacy, from which it appears that the commission is not satisfied from the documents you submitted that Amalie Roeber is a proper charge upon the State of New York, inasmuch as it nowhere appears that she has been a resident of the State at any time within the past twenty years. The commission, therefore, holds that the State of New York would not be justified in accepting Mrs. Roeber as a public charge.
Accept, etc.,
Acting Secretary.