The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador ( Spring Rice )

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of December 25, 1914, with reference to the neutrality rules and quarantine regulations of the Panama Canal Zone.

The contents of your note will receive the Department’s attentive consideration in connection with your excellency’s previous note on the above subject, dated December 18.

I have [etc.]

Robert Lansing