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5727/209.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Russian Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, April 3, 1908.
No. 73.]

Excellency: Referring to your note of the 14th ultimo, I have the honor to inclose a copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of [Page 351] the Treasury, in which he announces that the provisions of point F of this department’s note annexed to the reciprocity agreement between the United States and Germany, have been extended to the Russian exchange committees named in the list submitted by you.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.
[Inclosure.]

The Acting Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of State.

Treasury Department,
Washington, March 31, 1908.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th instant, transmitting a translation of a communication from the Russian ambassador, with its inclosures, relative to Russian exchange committees.

Customs officers will be instructed in the next issue of the Treasury Decisions that the provisions of point F of the diplomatic note annexed to the agreement with Germany have been extended to the Russian exchange committees named in the list submitted by the ambassador.

Respectfully,

Beekman Winthrop.