File No. 5727/286.
The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Hill.
Washington, September 24, 1909.
Sir: The department is in receipt of your dispatch 415 of August 20, 1909, communicating a copy of a note which you had received from the imperial under secretary of state for foreign affairs, stating that the German Government understands that the present commercial agreement between the United States and Germany will terminate with the close of the 7th day of February, 1910, and requesting to be informed if this view is shared by the Government of the United States.
In reply I have to inform you that this matter was referred to the Department of the Treasury for its consideration, and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury has replied, under date of the 21st instant, that that department concurs in the opinion of the German Government that the agreement will terminate with the close of the 7th day of February, 1910.
I am, etc.,