Letter

Frelinghuysen to Chester Holcombe, April 21, 1882

No. 76. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Holcombe.

No. 160.]

Sir: I transmit herewith for your information copies of a recent circular of the Treasury Department, enjoining the customs officers to enforce the provisions of Article II of the treaty of November 17, 1880, with China, relative to importations of opium by Chinese subjects.

You will communicate two copies of this circular to the foreign minister.

Acknowledging, in this relation, the receipt of your interesting dispatch, No. 57,

I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.
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