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. 1271

[Untitled]

Department of state,
Washington, May 14, 1908.

To the American diplomatic and consular officers.

Gentlemen: You are hereby instructed that rule (a), relative to the facts to be established to overcome the presumption of expatriation, prescribed in the circular instruction of April 19, 1907, entitled “Expatriation,” and the circular instruction of December 11, 1907, entitled “Expatriation and Protection of Americans in Turkish Dominions,” is hereby amended so as to read:

(a) That his residence abroad is solely or principally as a representative of American trade and commerce and that he intends eventually to return to the United States to reside.

I am, etc.,

Elihu Root.