File No. 5727/96.

The Acting Secretary of State to the French Chargé.

No. 424.]

Sir: Referring further to the ambassador’s note of the 8th of June last, I have the honor to inform you of the receipt of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury stating that as it appears from the ambassador’s note above mentioned and from statements made on the 2d ultimo by his excellency the minister of foreign affairs in the French Senate that the French chambers of commerce bear an official relation to the Government of the Republic, the Treasury Department perceives no objection to the acceptance of certificates of value issued by such chambers of commerce, as in the case of German chambers of commerce under Point F of the diplomatic note annexed to the recent commercial agreement between the United States and Germany.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.