File No. 1229/6.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Italian Chargé.

My Dear Mr. Chargé: In reply to your note of the 19th instant, I beg to inclose for the information of your Government copies of the correspondence between this department and the British embassy in regard to the renunciation of extraterritorial jurisdiction of the United States in Zanzibar.

A copy of the treaty of February 25, 1905, between the United States and Zanzibar, is also inclosed.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.