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 II

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Wright .

Department of State,
Washington , August 31, 1906 .

No. 27.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 37 of the 2d instant, inquiring whether the Japanese secretary of your embassy is authorized to perform notarial acts under Revised Statutes, 1750.

In reply, I have to inform you that the “Japanese secretary and interpreter to embassy to Japan,” as he is officially designated, would not seem to be either a secretary of legation or a consular officer within the meaning of Revised Statutes, 1674, and is, therefore, apparently not empowered to act as a notary under Revised Statutes, 1750, which authorizes “every secretary of legation and consular officers” to perform any notarial act.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.