Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.
Berlin, December 13, 1898.
Sir: Referring to your instruction of the 26th ultimo (No. 640), I have the honor to inform you that I have just learned from our consulate at Bremen that he has already—on November 3, in an unnumbered dispatch—sent to the Department a copy of the new Bremen regulations in regard to the examination of living plants and fruits, to which reference was made in my dispatch No. 592 of November 8.
In this connection, however, I beg to inclose a copy of the Hamburg regulations on the same subject, which I have this morning received from the consul at Hamburg, who informs me that he has sent no copy of them to the Department, to which I referred in dispatch No. 586, of November 3.
I have, etc.,