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The Secretary of State to Chargé Hitt.

Department of State,
Washington, January 29, 1906.
No. 66.]

Sir: Referring to Mr. White’s No. 96, of the 2d instant, in regard to the adhesion of the United States to the convention establishing the international institute of agriculture, I inclose a full power [Page 945] authorizing Mr. White to sign the convention, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate and the enactment of legislation to give it effect so far as concerns the United States.

I am, etc.,

Elihu Root.