Letter
Dorence Atwater to By the President: W. Hunter, December 31, 1879
[Inclosure in No. 217.]
Mr. Atwater to Mr. Hunter.
United States Consulate, Tahiti, December 31, 1879. (Received February 28.)
No. 145.]
Sir: Dispatch No. 79 has been received.
In reply I have to state that the permission from the French Government allowing foreigners to navigate under the protectorate flag was promulgated here some time ago.
Foreigners are required to pay $100 per annum while navigating under the protectorate flag, which is not required of French nor natives. This seems unjust, when it is taken into consideration that there is but one vessel owned by French subjects, and that nine-tenths of all the commerce here is and always has been transacted by others than the French.
I am, &c.,
DORENCE ATWATER.
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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.