Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Sherman to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, May 3, 1897.

No. 1438.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 2717, of March 19 last, and to approve the instructions of the same date which you issued to Consul Smithers, at Chungking, in, regard to the exhibition of passports and the traveling of roads by missionaries.

Respectfully, etc.,

John Sherman.