611.4131/1887½
The British Ambassador (Lindsay) to the Secretary of State
Your Excellency: I have the honour to inform you, with reference to Article II of the Trade Agreement signed this day, that His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, will not, by reason of the said Article II alone, claim treatment of the kind therein provided for on the importation into the United States of America of coal, coke manufactured therefrom, or coal or coke briquettes, the produce or manufacture of any territory to which the Agreement applies on the part of His Majesty, so long as and in so far as existing law of the United States of America may prevent such treatment from being accorded to such products.
I have the honour [etc.]