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Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State .

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg , December 1, 1906 .
No. 705.]

Sir: I beg leave to report that a semiofficial note published this week on the Jewish question states that the questions of permission for Jews to acquire land in all parts of Russia and the removal of the limits for Jewish settlement must be left to the Douma. While, however, such provisions would at present be premature, the three following measures will be carried out before the summoning of the Douma: The removal of the restrictive police regulations in twenty-five governments lying within Jewish pale; the promulgation of similar arrangements for Jews outside the pale; and the removal of the restrictions under which Jews labor regarding trade.

I have, etc.,

G. v. L. Meyer.