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46,149 lettersNo. 2, (with dispatch No. 99.) [From the Taranaki Herald summary for November mail.] AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. NEW MAIL SERVICE WITH ENGLAND.—MEMORANDUM OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.—IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS TO THIS COLONY.…
No. 1.—Unofficial. Department of Finance, Honolulu, January 16, 1871. Mr. Minister: The establishing of a proper steam service between San Francisco and Sydney is a matter of so much importance…
No. 247. Mr. Peirce to Mr. Fish No. 99.] Legation of the United States of America, Honolulu, January 23, 1871. (Received Feb. 18.) Sir: In the belief that no law…
No. 3, (with dispatch No. 98.) Department of Foreign Affairs, Honolulu, January 24, 1871. Sir: In answer to your letter of the 17th instant, and in accordance with your request…
No. 2, (with dispatch No. 98.) Legation of the United States of America, Honolulu, January 17, 1871. Sir: The Hawaiian government steamer Kilauea, having returned from Ocean Island, bringing Captain…
No. 246. Mr. Peirce to Mr. Fish No. 98.] Legation of the United States of America, Honolulu, January 18, 1871. (Received February 15.) Sir: I have the honor and the…
[Untitled] Legation of the United States, Honolulu, December 25, 1870. Sir: In consequence of the wreck of the United States steamer Saginaw, reported to me last Saturday, I immediately chartered…
No. 245. Mr. Peirce to Mr. Fish No. 93.] Legation of the United States of America, Honolulu, December 27, 1870. (Received January 18, 1871.) Sir: The United States steamer Saginaw,…
No. 244. Mr. Fish to Mr. Hudson. No. 36.] Department of State, Washington, October 9, 1871. Sir: Your dispatch No. 40, of the 20th of August last, has been received.…
No. 243. Mr. Davis to Mr. Hudson No. 35.] Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1871. Sir: Your dispatches, numbered 37, 38, and 39, have been received. The efforts which…
No. 242. Mr. Hudson to Mr. Fish No. 38.] Legation of the United States, Guatemala, July 31, 1871. (Received September 4.) Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt…
No. 241. Mr. Tuckermen to Mr. Fish No. 160.] Legation of the United States, Athens, January 14, 1871. (Received February 8.) Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt…
Mr. Douglass to Mr. Boutwell Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., August 31, 1871. Sir: Yours of the 28th instant, inclosing letter of the honorable Secretary of State with the opinion…
No. 240. Mr. Hartley to Mr. Fish Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., September 2, 1871. (Received September 4.) Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August…
No. 239. Mr. Akerman to Mr. Fish Department of Justice, August 7, 1871. (Received August 9.) Sir: Your letter of the 1st instant presents a question arising under the act…
[Untitled] Washington, May 1, 1871. Sir: We have the honor to inclose certified statement of the amount of taxes due from the Puget Sound Agricultural Company to Pierce County, in…
Mr. Thornton to Mr. Fish Washington, May 25, 1871. Sir: I have the honor to invite your attention to the act of appropriation for the consular and diplomatic services for…
No. 238. 4.—PAYMENTS TO GREAT BRITAIN UNDER THE TREATY OF JULY 1, 1863. Mr. Fish to Mr. Akerman Department of State, Washington, August 1, 1871. Sir: I have the honor…
No. 237. The President to the Governor of New York. Executive Mansion, Washington, November 29, 1871. Sir: I transmit herewith a copy of a treaty concluded in this city on…
No. 236. Treaty between the United States and Great Britain.—Claims, fisheries, navigation of the St. Lawrence, &c., American lumber on the river St. John, boundary.—Concluded May 8, 1871; ratifications exchanged…