Letter

Comly to By the King: W. L. Green, March 23, 1882

Author

Comly

Recipient

By the King: W. L. Green

Date

March 23, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 5 in No. 213.]

Mr. Comly to Mr. Green.

Legation of the United States, Honolulu, March 23, 1882.

Sir: About two months ago I had the honor to consult your excellency verbally with regard to obtaining certain statistics as to available sugar and rice lands not yet taken up, as to lands available for small holdings, and what inducements are offered by Hawaiian laws in the way of homesteads for immigrants of small means desiring to occupy such small holdings, as to amount and kinds of labor already employed, wages, &c.

It was not then practicable to supply exact figures or reliable conjectures on these points.

In this week’s Hawaiian newspaper I note what purport to be official figures, founded upon non-official answers to inquiries, covering some of these points, from the office of the minister of the interior.

I now have the honor to respectfully inquire of your excellency whether in your opinion those before-mentioned figures are sufficiently exact and authoritative to be used by me as reliable data in answering an instruction from the honorable Secretary of State; and, if so, when and where I may obtain official copies of the same.

I have, &c.,

JAMES M. COMLY.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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.