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. 4013.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Beaupré .

Department of State,
Washington , February 8, 1907 .

No. 104.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 456, of December 14 last, transmitting an executive decree authorizing the temporary storage, free of duty, of merchandise proceeding from the bordering countries in transit to established ports of Bolivia and Paragua and of the Brazilian States of the upper Parana and the River Paraguay.

The inclosure to your dispatch has been read with satisfaction as tending to ameliorate, in a mutually beneficial manner, restrictions on commerce.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.