File No. 150.655/5.
The American Chargé
d’Affaires to the Secretary of
State.
American Embassy,
Borne, July 26,
1911.
No. 426.]
Sir: Referring to the Department’s instruction
No. 167, etc., I have the honor to inclose herewith the reply of the
Italian foreign office, accompanied by translation thereof, to the
above-mentioned proposition.
It will be noted that the minister for foreign affairs refers to a
previous note on the subject, dated April 11, 1911; as however this note
has never been received by the embassy, I have to-day asked to be
furnished with a copy, which will be forwarded to the Department as soon
as received.
I nave, etc.,
[Page 311]
[Inclosure.]
The Italian Minister for
Foreign Affairs to the American
Ambassador.
[Translation.]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Rome, July 25,
1911.
Mr. Ambassador: I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of the note No. 311 of June 24, 1911, in which
your excellency requests a reply to the notes No. 237 of January 25,
1911, and No. 256 of March 13, 1911. To this latter I have already
had the honor to reply in my note dated April 11 of this year, in
which I stated that I willingly complied with the request made to me
by the Federal Government through the” medium of your excellency,
and that to the doctors sailing as royal commissioners on ships for
the emigration service instructions would be given to the effect
that they should report directly to the quarantine bureaus of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, and New Orleans whether during the
journey any cases of contagious diseases had occurred on board.
If, however, the Government of the United States should deem it
necessary that in regard to this matter an actual arrangement should
be made with the Royal Government, I will willingly discuss with
your excellency the necessary arrangements.
I avail, etc.,
