Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 406/22.

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Peking, December 24, 1906.

No. 488.]

Sir: In further reference to the subject of the arrangement by exchange of notes with such of my colleagues as may be duly authorized by their Governments for that purpose for the reciprocal protection of our trade-marks in China, I have the honor to inform you that the Spanish minister has advised me that he was unable to exchange such assurances with me, as Spanish consuls in China were not empowered to hear cases involving infringement of trade-marks.

I have, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill.