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22501°—F B 1909—28  433MOROCCO. 
RECOGNITION OP MOULEY HAPID AS SULTAN OP MOROCCO. 
[Continued from Foreign Relations, 1908, p. 642, et seq.] 
File No. 2151/313. 
Minister Gummere' to the Secretary of State. 
AMERICAN LEGATION, 
Tangier, January 6, 1909. 
 SIR: I have the honor to report as follows: As reported to the department
in my telegram' of the 4th instant, on the 3d of January the dean of the
diplomatic corps circulated a letter among that body announcing that the
representatives of all the powers, signatory to the act of Algeciras had
informed him that their respective Governments approved of the note to be
presented to Mouley Hafid through his representative at Tangier, and requesting
that the interpreters of the various legations should meet at the Portuguese
legation on the afternoon of the 4th instant for the purpose of translating
the said note into Arabic preparatory to its presentation. The meeting of
the interpreters was held and, as reported in my telegram1 of this date,
on the 5th instant the dean of the diplomatic corps circulated another letter
among the corps announcing that he had, on that day, delivered the note from
the powers, recognizing Mouley Hafid as Sultan of Morocco, to his representative
at Tangier. 
I am, etc., 
S. R. GtTMMER~. 
ACQUISITION OP PROPERTY FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN MOROCCO AND RENTAL OP
A HOUSE IN MOORISH QUARTER OP MEQUINEZ. 
[Continued from Foreign Relations, 1908, p. 638, et seq.] 
File No. 594/27—35. 
Minister Gun'bnwré to the Secretary of State. 
[Extract.] 
AMERICAN LEGATION, 
Tangier, March 16, 1909. 
 SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of instruction No. 171,
of February 19, 1909,' inclosing copy of a letter from the 
 1 printed.