File No. 811.5241/80b
The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador
Washington, August 31, 1916.
Excellency: Referring to your note of February 5, 1914, and to the Department’s reply of March 6 following, in regard to the applicability to Porto Rico of the provisions of the Treaty of 1899 between the United States and Great Britain relative to the tenure and disposition of real and personal property, I have now the honor to inform you that the Senate, having by its resolution of August 29, 1916, advised and consented to such notice being given, the American Embassy at London, has this day been instructed to give to His Britannic Majesty’s Government, in conformity with paragraph 3 of Article IV of the said Convention, formal notice, by direction of the treaty-making power of the United States, that the provisions of the said Convention are extended and applied to the Island of Porto Rico.
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