Mr. Adee to Mr. Runyon.

No. 273.]

Sir: I have to inform you that your dispatch, No. 235, of the 2d instant, setting forth the grounds upon which you issued a passport to Miss Dora Schultz, of Chicago, has been received.

In reply, I have to say that your course in regard to the matter is approved by the Department, as being in accord with the principle established by the Haberacker case (F. R., 1891, p. 521).

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.