File No. 5727/95.
The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.
Washington, August 7, 1907.
Excellency: I duly communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury a copy of your note, No. 172 of the 20th ultimo, stating that the chambers of commerce of London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bradford, Belfast, Glasgow, Dundee, Leeds, Hull, Edinburgh, Dublin, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Huddersfield, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Bristol have been accepted by the board of trade as competent to issue certificates of value.
I am now in receipt of a reply from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in which it is stated that in accordance with that department’s letter of July 9 last such certificates issued by any of the chambers of commerce named will be recognized by appraising officers [Page 501] on the same terms as are accorded to those issued by German chambers of commerce under Point F of the diplomatic note attached to the recent commercial agreement between the United States and Germany.
A copy of the Treasury Department’s letter of the 9th ultimo, to which reference is herein made, was communicated to the embassy on the 10th ultimo.
I have, etc.,