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 Secretary of State to Minister Leishman.

Department of State,
Washington, March 12, 1906.

No. 1043.]

Sir: I inclose herewith a copy of a letter^a from Mr. James S. McCarthy, asking if the body of a person who died in the United States will be permitted to enter Syria, Turkey, for burial there, the dead person having died of a disease which is not contagious.

You will inquire of the Turkish Government whether the burial in Syria will be permitted; and if so, on what conditions.

I am, etc.,

E. Root.

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