File No. 774/769.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Netherlands Chargé.

No. 78.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d instant, by which, in accordance with instructions you have received from your Government, the Government of the United States is invited to be officially represented by delegates at an international conference for the regulation of the commerce in opium.

In reply I have the honor to say that the Government accepts with pleasure the invitation of Her Majesty’s Government, and that it will at an early date communicate the names of its delegates to the international conference above mentioned

Accept, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.