871.63/16
The Minister in Rumania (Jay) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 1.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to my Despatch No. 582 of March 29th in regard to the proposed Rumanian Mining Law. I enclosed therein a copy of a communication I thought it well to address to the Minister for Foreign Affairs upon the subject, although I had just learned it had been decided to postpone the presentation of the law to Parliament until the autumn session.
I now have the honor to enclose a copy and translation of a short formal acknowledgment from the Minister,6 received today, in which he states that the draft referred to by me was merely a simple study of the matter which has not even as yet left the offices of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and that any discussion of the matter was therefore premature, etc., etc.
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I understand that in view of the apparently definite fact that the law is not to be presented to Parliament until the autumn, my Colleagues have for the present abandoned the idea of entering forma] protests.
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