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. 1166/452.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Japanese Chargé.

Department of State,
Washington, October 28, 1909.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant in which you convey the information that the arrangements provided for in the agreement between Japan and Korea, signed on July 12, last, by which Japanese courts are to administer justice in Korea to Korean subjects will become operative on November 1, next.

It is noted that the new arrangement will in nowise affect the jurisdiction reserved to the Powers having treaties with Korea.

Accept, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.