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. 803/11–12.

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, January 31, 1907.

No. 241.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 472 of the 8th ultimo, inclosing a copy of a note to you from Prince Ch’ing, informing you that he had arranged with this department that the Chinese minister or chargé d’affaires in Japan and the Chinese consul-general in Korea should issue section 6 certificates to Chinese of the exempt class going from those countries to the United States.

In this connection I inclose herewith for your information a copy of a note^a from the Chinese minister here, giving a list of Chinese officials especially authorized by his Government to issue section 6 certificates to Chinese of the exempt class coming to the United States from other countries than China.

I am, etc.,

Elihu Root.

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