Foreign Relations of the United States, 1901, Appendix, Affairs in China, Report of William W. Rockhill, Late Commissioner to China, with Accompanying Documents

Mr. Hay to Mr. Rockhill.

No. 26.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 18, 1901.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 92, of May 22 last, reporting the proceedings of the meeting of the diplomatic corps held that day to consider the note of the Chinese plenipotentiaries indicating how China proposes to pay the estimated indemnity of 450,000,000 taels.

Your position on the question of customs duties, likin, and commercial privileges, as stated in the dispatch, is entirely in the line of the instructions telegraphed to you last spring, and is cordially approved by the Department.

I am, sir, etc.,

John Hay.