File No. 611.3731/9.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

No. 550.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy and translation of a note just received froni the Cuban Department of State. * * *

I have, etc.,

John B. Jackson.
[Inclosure, translation.]

The Cuban Secretary of State to the American Minister.

Mr. Minister: In order to complete a memorandum which is being prepared by this Department in respect to the propriety of Cuba’s adhering to the convention in regard to the control of sugar, signed at Brussels on May 5, 1903,2 it would like to know your excellency’s authoritative opinion as to whether the reduction of [the rates established in] sections 293 and 294 of the Cuban tariff (which refer to the importation of crude and refined sugars), in order to place [Page 102] the Republic in a position to adhere to that convention, would affect the commercial relations regulated by the reciprocity treaty between Cuba and the United States of America.

I avail, etc.,

Manuel Sanguily.
  1. Should be March 5, 1902.