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Aaron S. Daggett to Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, December 22, 1883
No. 198. Mr. Daggett to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of the United States, Honolulu, December 22, 1883. (Received January 12.)
No. 110.]
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that since the issuance of a writ of mandamus restraining the minister of finance from exchanging Hawaiian 6 per cent. bonds for Hawaiian silver coins at their face value, a resolution has been passed by the privy council recognizing such coins as legal tender, “in like manner as silver coins of the United States of like denomination”; and the collector-general of customs has been instructed to accept in the payment of customs duties only United States gold coin or its equivalent. This instruction accords with a law of 1876, which has not been enforced.
I am, &c.,
ROLLIN M. DAGGETT.
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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.