Letter

De Long to Soyeshmia Tane-omi, October 20, 1872

Author
De Long
Recipient
Soyeshmia Tane-omi
Date
October 20, 1872
Type
Letter
Language
English
[Inclosure 1.]

Mr. De Long to Soyeshmia Tane-omi.

United States Legation, Japan,
October 20, 1872.

Your Excellency: Understanding you to advise me a few days since that the King of the Lew Chew Islands had been called upon by the Japanese government to resign his titles and estates, which had been done, letters-patent of nobility issued to him constituting him a member of the nobility of your empire, ranking as do the former daimios, thus incorporating Lew Chew as an integral portion of the Japanese Empire:

I feel called upon to call your attention to a contract entered into between the former kingdom of Lew Chew and the United States of America, on the 11th of July, 1854, (see bound volume of Treaties, page 4,) and to ask if the same will be observed in all its provisions by your government within the territorial limits of the former kingdom.

I have, &c.,

C. E. DE LONG.

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19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
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.
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