611.9331/87b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
258. Department’s 245, July 27, 11 a.m. Following is text of your powers dated July 21, original follows by pouch:16
“calvin coolidge,
President of the United States of America
To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Know ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, prudence and ability of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to China, I have invested him with full and all manner of power and authority for and in the name of the United States of America to meet and confer with any person or persons duly authorized by the Government Council of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, being invested with like power and authority, and with him or them to negotiate, conclude and sign an agreement modifying or amending the provisions of the treaties hitherto concluded and in force between the United States of America and China relating to rates of duty upon imports and exports of merchandise, drawbacks and tonnage dues and other related matters, the same to be transmitted to the President of the United States for his ratification, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
[Seal]Done at the city of Washington, this 21st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third.
Calvin Coolidge”
By the President:
Frank B. Kellogg
Secretary of State
- The original of the full powers was sent to the Minister in China in instruction No. 940, Aug. 2 (611.9331/87a).↩