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. 2648/10–13.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Fletcher.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 3, 1908.

Mr. Bacon acknowledges dispatch No. 790, and directs Mr. Fletcher to inform the Chinese Government on lines followed by the British minister in the note of November 21 that the United States Government views with dissatisfaction the Mining Regulations proposed by the Imperial Government. States that articles 49, 60, 61, and 62 are inconsistent with the rights guaranteed by treaty and that articles 5, 10, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 54, and 59 show restrictive tendency.