EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 14, 1889_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
Whereas, by virtue of the provisions of the act of Congress approved
June 22, 1860 (12 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 73), entitled "An act to
carry into effect provisions of the treaties between the United States,
China, Japan, Siam, Persia, and other countries giving certain judicial
powers to ministers and consuls or other functionaries of the United
States in those countries, and for other purposes," Charles Denby,
minister of the United States at Peking, has formally promulgated, under
date of August 18, 1888, additional regulations governing the rendition
of judgments by confession in the consular courts of the United States
in China, the same having been previously assented to by all the
consular officers of this Government in that Empire:
Now, therefore, in accordance with section 4119 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, being the sixth section of the act
above mentioned, and which directs that all such regulations shall be
transmitted to the Secretary of State, "to be laid before Congress for
revision," I do herewith transmit to Congress a copy of Mr. Denby's
dispatch No. 754, of November 5, 1888, containing the regulations so
decreed.