Letter

Midluno Idlumi No Kami to A. L. C. Portman, September 21, 1865

Author

Midluno Idlumi No Kami

Recipient

A. L. C. Portman

Date

September 21, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 1.

The Gorogio to Mr. Portman

I have the honor to inform you that I have instructed the governors at the three opened ports to notify the consuls of the treaty powers at those places, respectively, that it has been decided to abolish the hitherto existing regulations concerning the trade in irico, dried awabi, and sharks’ fins, and that from the 20th day of our ninth month (the 8th November next) the trade in those articles shall hereafter be as free as that in any other article of commerce.

The governors at the opened ports may possibly find it convenient to give effect to this decision at an earlier day, in which case the consuls of the treaty powers will be duly notified by them.

I have to request you to make the foregoing known to the consuls of the United States in this country.

With respect and esteem, the 2d day of the eighth month of the first year of Ke-U, (21st September, 1865.)

MIDLUNO IDLUMI NO KAMI.

A. L. C. Portman, Esq., Chargé d’Affaires of the United States in Japan, &c, &c.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.