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. 1229/11.

Vice-Consul Sarle to the Third Assistant Secretary of State.

American Consulate,
Zanzibar, April 30, 1907.

No. 41.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge cable of this day reading, viz:^a Accordingly I have this day informed His British Majesty’s consul-general and diplomatic agent, Basil S. Cave, also the first minister to Zanzibar Government, General Raikes, and all the foreign representatives, that the United States has relinquished its extraterritorial jurisdiction, and that the consular court is now closed.

In regard to court records, there has been no case in the consular court since I assumed charge of the office.

The various miscellaneous books contain the records of court proceedings in the past.

I have, etc.,

A. L. Sarle.

1. Supra [April 29].