Minister Wilson to the Secretary of State.

No. 259.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the department’s telegram of December 3, which is confirmed as follows:

Your two hundred fifty. Convention proclaimed December 2.

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By note of this date, copy of which is inclosed, I have advised the Belgian Government of the action taken.

I have, etc.,

Henry Lane Wilson.
[Inclosure.]

Minister Wilson to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Minister: Referring to my note of May 11, 1907, relative to the deposit of the instrument of adherence of my Government to the Brussels convention of November 3, 1906, I have now the honor to inform your excellency that I duly transmitted to Washington the certified copy of the procès verbal of the ratifications of the international agreement for the regulation of the traffic of spirits in Africa.

I beg to advise your excellency that the President of the United States, by public proclamation dated December 2, 1907, has formally made known the adherence of the American Government to the convention.

I avail, etc.,

Henry Lane Wilson.