Chinese Majesty to the United States to I hereby certify that Cheng Tsao Ju, known to me to be the envoy extraordinary and, April 24, 1885

receipt on behalf of china.

I, the undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, do hereby acknowledge to have received, on this 24th day of April, A. D. 1885, in the name and on account of the Imperial Government of China, from the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State of the United States of America, a draft drawn by Messrs. Riggs & Co., of Washington, D. C., on the Bank of America, of New York, in favor of the Secretary of State of the United States, and by him duly indorsed to my order, for the sum of $453,400.90, in lawful money of the United States of America, it being well understood that this payment by the Secretary of State to me as the representative of the Chinese Government is in full and due execution by the President of the United States, in so far as the Government of China is concerned, of the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885, which is word for word as follows:

“AN ACT relative to the Chinese indemnity fund.

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the residue of the indemnity received from China, which is now in the custody of the Secretary of State, and is known and designated in the accounts and reports of the Department of State as the Chinese indemnity fund, to be converted into coin, and the sum of five hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred dollars and ninety cents be returned to the Chinese Government, and the balance of said fund, if any, be covered into the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That before the payment to China the Secretary of State shall pay from said fund to the executors of Charles E. Hill the sum of $130,000, upon receipt of a release in full for all claims upon China for the use and loss of the steamer Keorjeor, in or about the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

“Approved March 3d, 1885.”

And proof having been produced before me that in compliance with one of the provisions of said act, the Secretary of State of the United States has paid to the executors of Charles E. Hill the sum of $130,000 upon receipt of a release in full for all claims upon China for the use and loss of the steamer Keorgeor in or about the year 1883, I hereby ratify the action of the Secretary of State in making such payment, and, furthermore, in consideration of the sum of $453,400.90, the receipt of which I have above acknowledged, I do, in the name of my Government, by these presents, remise, release, and forever quit-claim and discharge the Government of the United States from all claim or demand whatsoever for or on account of any pecuniary rights which China may have acquired by virtue of the act of Congress aforesaid, and the transactions referred to therein, and I undertake to procure for the Government of the United States, from the minister for foreign affairs of China, a receipt and quittance similar in substance and effect to these presents.