File No. 1229/1.

The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

No. 545.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, expressing the thanks of His Majesty’s Government [Page 571] for this Government’s action in conditionally waiving its extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar, and to say that this department would be pleased to be advised when the German Government shall have made a similar waiver.

I have, etc.,

Elihu Root.