Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, December 9, 1905.

No. 76.]

Sir: I inclose herewith a copy of a letter from Mr. F. W. Sutterle, managing director of the American-Chinese Company,^a repeating his statements that the so-called experimental mining regulations now in force in China are in direct contradiction to the spirit of Article VII of the treaty of October 8, 1903, and complaining that the regulations are an absolute disbarment to the attraction of foreign capital.

You will bring the matter to the attention of the Chinese Government and request that the mining regulations be amended in accordance with the treaty.

I am, sir, etc.,

Robert Bacon,
Acting Secretary.

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