Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 16545/8.

Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
London, June 18, 1909.

No. 945.]

Sir: With reference to the department’s instruction No. 972, of the 21st of April last, relating to the private incomes of United States consular officers in Great Britain, I have the honor to inform you that I am advised by the secretary of state for foreign affairs that His Majesty’s Government are unable to extend the concession already granted to foreign consular officers in respect of the exemption of their official salaries from the income tax so as to cover their private incomes from property abroad.

I have, etc.,

(For the Ambassador).

J. R. Carter