Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

The Acting Secretary of State to the Argentine Minister. ^a

Department of State,
Washington , June 28, 1905 .

Sir: Referring to the Department’s note of the 7th instant, I have the honor to advise you that, in view of representations made to this government, the suggestion made in said note that two commissions be issued in the case of consuls appointed by your government in Panama—one addressed to the President of the United States, for the Isthmian Canal Zone, and the other to the President of Panama—is hereby withdrawn.

I shall be pleased if, in communicating this information to your government, you will add that the consular officers commissioned by it to the President of Panama, and by him officially recognized as such, can exercise their consular functions within and with reference to the Canal Zone without being commissioned to the President of the United States and without an exequatur or other recognition from the United States than is implied in the present note.

Accept, etc.

Herbert H. D. Peirce.

1. The same note mutatis mutandis to all foreign embassies and legations in the United States.