C. de Freycinet to Noyes, June 24, 1880

Mr. de Freycinet to Mr. Noyes.

General: By your letter of the 19th of this month, referring to my communication of the 28th of April, in relation to the exercise of the right of navigation under the flag of the protectorate of the Society Islands, you were pleased to express to me, in the name of your government, the desire to know if the regulation actually in force maintained the obligation on the part of foreign captains soliciting authority to navigate under the colors of the protectorate, to pay a tax of $100 (500 francs). I hasten to announce to you that, since last year, the minister of the marine, in order to put the new regulation in complete harmony with the liberal thought which had inspired it, prescribed the suppression of the fiscal provision in question.

Accept, &c.,