Letter
Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, December 12, 1878
[Inclosure 4, in No. 91.]
Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung.
December 12, 1878.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this moment of your Imperial Highness’s dispatch of this date in matter of the transit passes for Szchuen produce taken out by Mr. M. A. Jenkins, in which your Imperial Highness informs me that you have instructed the viceroy of Szchuen to see to it that the local officers concerned make at once the usual examination of the merchandise, and if no irregularities are discovered, to allow it to proceed, &c., &c.
I beg to present my most sincere thanks to your Imperial Highness for this very prompt and satisfactory action.
I have, &c.,
CHESTER HOLCOMBE.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.