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, March 28, 1906.

No. 127.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 225, of the 13th ultimo, inclosing a copy of your note to the Prince of Ch’ing, of the 30th of January, in further remonstrance against Article VII of the new Chinese mining regulations. In the note you insist that Article VII shall be amended so that it shall not conflict in any way with the provisions of the treaty of 1903 between the United States and China.

In reply I have to say that your protest is approved by the department.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary.