The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Jackson .
Washington , May 3, 1906.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 30, Montenegrin series, of the 4th ultimo, informing the department that the Montenegrin minister of foreign affairs has asked you to inform him “if the Government of the United States is disposed to prohibit, on request from the Montenegrin Government, the admission into the United States of any Montenegrins presenting themselves without passports regularly viséed for the purpose of emigration to America.”
Your reply to the effect that this Government would not be willing to comply with such a request is approved. The administrative officers of the United States may exclude only the classes of persons whose entry is prohibited by law.
I am, etc.,
Acting Secretary.