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Mr. Hay to Lord Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington , January 7, 1902 .
No. 2330.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, No. 3, of the 2d instant, and to inform you in reply that I have made known to the Secretary of the Treasury that the government of Canada concurs in the suggestion that the practice of flying flags over the custom-houses of the United States in Canada and of Canada in the United States be discontinued, and I suggested that the Treasury Department’s officers stationed in Canada be instructed in that sense.

I have, etc.,

John Hay.