Letter
John M. Kapena to John M. Morton, August 21, 1879
[Inclosure 1 in No. 3.]
Mr. Kapena to Mr. Morton.
Department of Foreign Affairs, Honolulu, August 21, 1879.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge and reply to a dispatch No. 157 of 25th June last past, received from his excellency James M. Comly, United States minister resident, inclosing “interrogatories respecting the amount of gold and silver coin and bullion and paper currency in the Hawaiian Islands.”
I have now the honor and the pleasure to inclose herewith copy of a letter received this day from his excellency Simon K. Kaai, minister of finance, in which he answers the several queries embraced in the Hon. Mr. Evarts’s note to General Comly.
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With highest respects and distinguished consideration, I have, &c.,
JNO. M. KAPENA.
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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.