Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Lord Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, January 25, 1902.

No. 2343.]

Excellency: In further reply to your note of the 2d instant, I have now the honor to inform you that the Secretary of the Treasury wrote, on the 21st idem, that all the United States customs officers on the northern frontier had been instructed not hereafter to display official flags if their offices are located on British North American territory.

I have, etc.,

John Hay.