Aurelio Ga. Y Garcia to De Long, August 14, 1873

Mr. Garcia to Mr. De Long.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s dispatch No. 64, dated the 12th instant, in which your excellency advises me that on the 11th instant your excellency signed the bill of sale of the bark Maria Luz, received from Messrs. C. A. Fletcher & Co. the proceeds of her sale less their account of sales as per their receipt, paid Messrs. Walsh, Hall & Co. their account of expenses of vessel to date, according to their receipt, and deposited the balance of ($4,713.28) four thousand seven hundred and thirteen Mexican dollars and twenty-eight cents in the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of Yokohama, as per copy of certificate to that effect, which receipt and certificate have also come to hand.

As your action is entirely in accordance with the protocol of June 25, 1873, signed by the acting minister for foreign affairs of Japan and myself, and with our joint note to your excellency of July 14, 1873, I have only once more to thank your excellency most sincerely in my own name and in the name of my government for the trouple that you have been so kind as to give yourself in this matter, assuring your excellency of my earnest recognition of your services, and of my highest consideration and particular esteem.