Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Mr. Von Holleben.

Department of State,
Washington, February 5, 1902.

No. 721.]

Excellency: I have the honor, in further reply to your note of December 5 last, to inform you that on the 28th ultimo the governor of California wrote that he had called the attention of the local authorities of the ports in California to the provisions of the consular convention of December 11, 1871, and especially to Article XIII thereof, governing the procedure in cases of desertion from German merchant vessels, and that he had requested those authorities strictly to observe the provisions referred to.

Accept, etc.,

John Hay.