Letter
MORRISON, Agent in Yokohama to A. L. C. Portman, May 29, 1866
No. 5.
Mr. Morrison to Mr. Portman.
Central Bank of Western India, Yokohama, Japan, May 29, 1866.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday’s date, with enclosure for the manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation, requesting him to hold to my order the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ($250,000.)
In accordance with the terms of your letter now. under acknowledgment, I beg to hand you herewith six sets of bills, aggregating £56,770 16s. 8d. sterling, and also memorandum of account and particulars of said bills, the receipt of which please acknowledge.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
For the Central Bank of Western India,
J. MORRISON, Agent in Yokohama.
A. L. C. Portman, Esq., Acting Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States in Japan.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.