Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Hill to Mr. Choate.

Department of State,
Washington , May 29, 1901 .

No. 644.]

Sir: In a dispatch dated May 5, 1901, Mr. Pickerell, the United States consul at St. Michaels, Azores, reported to the Department that he had been requested by the British consul there to act for him during his proposed absence in England.

In reply the Department cheerfully gave its permission on the understanding that Mr. Pickerell’s so acting shall be entirely agreeable to the British Government and to the local authorities at St. Michaels, and that any duties he might be called upon to perform in this connection shall be as consul of the United States temporarily in charge of the British consulate, and all papers to be so signed.

You will communicate this to the British Government.

I am, etc.,

David J. Hill.