File No. 803/9–10.
Minister Rockhill
to the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Peking, December 8,
1906.
No. 472.]
Sir: In continuation of Mr. Coolidge’s No. 454,
of November 20, with regard to the issuing of certificates to Chinese of
the exempt classes when such Chinese may wish to enter the United States
from some country other than China, I have the honor to inclose herewith
a copy of a note from His Imperial Highness Prince Ch’ing, informing me
that he had arranged with the Department of State that the Chinese
minister or chargé d’affaires in Japan and the Chinese consul-general in
Korea should issue such certificates in their respective countries.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The Prince of Ch’ing
to Chargé Moore.
Foreign Office,
Peking, December 6,
1906.
No. 219.]
Your Excellency: In regard to the matter of
the authority of Chinese ministers, chargés d’affaires,
consuls-general, and consuls in foreign countries to issue
certificates to Chinese going to the United States from countries
other than China, on the 20th of November I had the honor to receive
a dispatch
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from your
legation, in which it was held that the number of officers in Japan
and Korea authorized to issue such certificates ought to be reduced;
that there ought not to be more than one official in each country so
authorized.
My board at once telegraphed to His Excellency Liang to consult with
the Department of State, and has now received his reply, saying that
he had arranged with the American Department of State that the
Chinese minister or chargé d’affaires in Japan and the Chinese
consul-general in Korea should issue such certificates.
It becomes my duty, therefore, to send this reply to your excellency
that you may place it on file.
A necessary dispatch.
[Seal of the Wai Wu Pu.]
