Mr. Hay to Mr. Rockhill.
Washington, April 5, 1901.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 30, of February 26 last, reporting that you have agreed with your colleagues in the demand to be made of the Chinese Government for a tract of land in Peking for the diplomatic quarter, and that you have called their attention to the inadequacy of the area allotted therein to the United States. You also report that you have expressed the profound regret which this Government and people would feel in learning that any of the powers should have found it necessary, under any circumstances, to dispossess or in any way interfere with the foreign maritime-customs staff.
Your action in the matter is approved by the Department.
I am, etc.,