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. Leishman.

Department of State,
Washington , July 25, 1901.

No. 40.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 52, of the 5th instant, transmitting a petition from Rev. J. L. Fowle and other American missionaries located at Cesarea, requesting the Department to authorize the British consul at Angora to look after American interests in his consular district, where this Government has no consular representative.

You will confer with the British ambassador on the subject. If he be favorable to authorizing the British consul at Angora to protect American interests, formal request to that end may be made by you, or the United States ambassador in London will be instructed to make the request, as may be most convenient.

I am, etc.,

David J. Hill,
Acting Secretary.