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. 66/81A.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Belgian Chargé.

Department of State,
Washington, September 20, 1909.

No. 569.]

Sir: Referring to previous correspondence I have the honor to inform you that the honorable Walter C. Noyes, United States circuit judge, of New London, Conn.; Mr. Charles C. Burlingham, a prominent admiralty lawyer of New York City; the honorable A. J. Montague, ex-governor of the State of Virginia, and Mr. Edwin W. Smith, of Pittsburgh, Pa., will represent the United States at the international conference on maritime law, which is to meet at Brussels on the 28th of this month.

The American minister at Brussels has been instructed to inform the Belgian Government of these appointments.

Accept, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.