File No. 2648/8–9.
The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Fletcher.
Washington, December 10, 1907.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 767, of October 22 last, inclosing a copy of a note from the Chinese foreign office, informing you of the promulgation by the Chinese Government of a new set of mining regulations, in two volumes, copies of which accompanied that note. You promise to send to the department a translation of the regulations, as soon as the translation is made.
The department awaits with interest the arrival of the translation and the legation’s comments thereon, particularly as to whether the regulations express the sense of Article VII of our treaty of 1903, or have been revised in a sense unfavorable to American and other foreign enterprises.
I am, etc.,