File No. 881.041.
The French Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.
Washington, October 7, 1913.
Mr. Secretary of State: By order of my Government I have the honor to forward herewith to your excellency two copies of the Official Bulletin of the Morocco Protectorate promulgating the new judiciary system in the French zone of the Shereefian Empire,1 together with a copy of the Journal Officiel of the French Republic of September 9, 1913, which also contains the decree relating to that organization.1
[Page 907]The new judiciary system, instituted by virtue of the provisions in paragraph 2 of article 9 of the Franco-German treaty of November 4, 1911, is intended to supersede the French Consular Courts on and after October 15, 1913.
In accordance with the provisions of the aforesaid article, I have been instructed to ask the Federal Government to place its citizens under the new jurisdiction. I shall hasten to forward to my Government the reply your excellency will be so good as to return to me on the subject.
Accept [etc.]