File No. 1229/6.
The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.
Washington, April 29, 1907.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 86, of the 22d and of that of the 25th instant, in continuation of the first, relating to the renunciation of extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar.
In response to your request for an official notification from this Government as to its course in this matter, I have the honor to state that in accordance with the terms of the treaty of February 25, 1905, between the United States and Great Britain whereby this Government undertakes to relinquish extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar as soon as such rights shall have been relinquished by other nations enjoying them, the Government of the United States, in view of the action of the other Governments concerned, and especially of the action of the German Government of recent date, to which reference is made in your note of the 22d instant, relinquishes its extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar.
I have the honor to add that the department has issued instructions, by cable, for closing the American consular court in Zanzibar and that arrangements have been made for the transfer of jurisdiction to the competent British courts.
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