811.5241/173
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of
State
London, March 25, 1930.
[Received April
3.]
No. 761
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that
immediately upon receipt of the Department’s Instruction No. 234, dated
January 22, 1930 (File 123 al 11/111),1 enclosing a copy of an instruction which had been
sent to the American Vice Consul at Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa,
relating to the death duties on the estate of Mr. Charles H. Albrecht,
deceased, formerly American Consul at Nairobi, a note was sent to the
Foreign Office requesting that the Embassy be furnished, for the use of
the officials of the United States Government, with a list of the
British Colonies which have not adhered to the Convention between the
United States and Great Britain which was signed at Washington on March
2, 1899,2 and I am transmitting herewith copies of the
Foreign Office note received in reply, which is self-explanatory.
I have [etc.]
For the Ambassador:
Ray
Atherton
Counselor of
Embassy[Enclosure]
The British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs (Henderson) to the
American Ambassador (Dawes)
London, March 24, 1930.
No. A1973/1001/45
Your Excellency: I have the honour to refer
to Your Excellency’s note No. 424 of February 4th and in reply to
state that the following British Colonies and Protectorates have not
adhered to the Convention between the United Kingdom and the United
States of America relative to the Disposal of Real and Personal
Property signed at Washington on the 2nd March, 1899:—
- 2.
- Gibraltar, Ascension, Federated Malay States (Negri
Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor,) Unfederated Malay States
(Johore, Kedah, [Page 135]
Kelantan, Perlis, Trengganu, Brunei), Kenya Colony and
Protectorate, Malta, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland
Protectorate, Sarawak, Seychelles, Somaliland Protectorate,
Swaziland, Uganda Protectorate, Weihaiwei, British Solomon
Islands Protectorate, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony,
Tonga, Zanzibar Protectorate.
- 3.
- The Convention has not been applied to the New Hebrides,
which are administered as a Franco-British
condominium.
- 4.
- Natal, which was not among the Colonies now forming the
Union of South Africa that acceded to the Convention, should
be added to the list.
- 5.
- No territory administered by His Majesty’s Government in
the United Kingdom under mandate from the League of Nations
is a party to the Convention.
I have [etc.]
(For the Secretary of State)
G.
H. Thompson
