Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 8602/11–15.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, May 21, 1908.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Fletcher’s dispatch No. 898, of the 7th ultimo, in further relation to the imposition of taxes or duties on American goods by inland Chinese authorities in addition to those prescribed by treaty.

Mr. Fletcher’s two notes of March 30, 1908, upon this subject, addressed to the Wai-wu Pu, are approved by the Department.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.