File No. 5727/137.

The Secretary of State to the Chargé of Austria-Hungary.

No. 229.]

Sir: Referring to your note of the 7th instant, relative to certificates of value issued by Hungarian chambers of commerce and industry, I have the honor to inform you that this department promptly conferred with the Treasury Department in regard to this matter, and that the Acting Secretary of the Treasury has advised this department, under date of the 20th instant, that the customs officers of the United States will be instructed in the next issue of “Treasury Decisions “that the provisions of Point F of the diplomatic note annexed to the commercial agreement between the United States and Germany have been extended to Hungarian chambers of commerce and industry.

Accept, etc.,

Elihu Root.