[Memorandum.], the 8th day of January, A. D. 1865

[Memorandum.]

The undersigned, representatives of Great Britain. France, the United States, and the Netherlands, hereby acknowledge to have received from the government of the Tycoon the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, ($500,000,) as the second instalment of the indemnity due to the aforesaid four powers under the convention of the 22d October, 1864, the conditions of which convention, in respect to the periods fixed for the payment of the several instalments of the said indemnity are reaffirmed by the ministers of the Tycoon in their letter addressed to the representatives of the aforesaid four powers, at Osacca, on the 24th November last.

Under these conditions, the instalment, of which the receipt is hereby acknowledged, became due on the 17th day of November, 1865, being the twenty-ninth day of the ninth month of the first year of Kei Ô.