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. 5727/83.

The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, July 26, 1907.

No. 122.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant inquiring whether the certificates of the British chambers of commerce will supersede the other documents relative to value required by the customs administration, and to confirm the department’s telegram of the 24th instant reading as follows (supra).

I may add that British board of trade certificates will be accepted as competent evidence by United States appraisers.

I have, etc.,

Robert Bacon.