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. 1132.

The Chinese Minister to the Secretary of State.

Imperial Chinese Legation,
Washington, October 18, 1906.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your department’s note of the 28th ultimo with regard to the granting of section 6 certificates to Chinese subjects of the exempt classes coming from countries other than China to the United States, and to say in reply that I have communicated to my Government for its consideration the objections therein stated to the plan proposed.

Accept, etc.,

Chentung Liang Cheng.