File No. 1229/8.
The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, May 1, 1907.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your note, No. 48, of April 29, in which you are so good as to inform me of the renunciation by the United States Government of their extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar and of the instructions issued to the American consul in that colony to close his court.
His Majesty’s Government had learned of this action from their officials in Zanzibar before my notification of it could reach them, and Sir Edward Grey immediately instructed me by telegraph to express to you the thanks of His Majesty’s Government for the readiness with which the United States Government have complied with their desires.
I have, etc.,