Letter

John A. Bingham to Terashima Munenor, February 8, 1876

[Inclosure 2 in No. 347.]

Mr. Bingham to Mr. Terashima.

No. 295.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s dispatch of this date requesting me to notify my countrymen to refrain from publication within His Majesty’s empire of newspapers or other periodicals in the Japanese language.

I would respectfully request your excellency to furnish me a translation of the press-law enacted by your government on this subject.

I have, &c.,

JNO. A. BINGHAM.

His Excellency Terashima Munenori, &c., &c., &c.

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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.