The Minister for Foreign Affairs to Mr. McDonald.
Your Excellency: In explanation of my communication of the 20th of January, I beg further to inform you that all books of a scientific, historical, or what may be called of a scholastic character, to be used in the tuition of either native or foreign children, will, with the permit and certificate of the ministry of public instruction, be free from all interference, as they always have been and always will be. Sacred and religious books for the sole use of the professors of such religions, may with the permit of the ministry of public instruction, be imported, but all such books brought for the purpose of being distributed gratis amongst the people, and of propagating an alien religion in Persia, are forbidden and strictly prohibited.
And if such books should get into the hands of the authorities they will be confiscated and destroyed and they will not be responsible for the consequences.
I take this opportunity, etc.,