POETMAN, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim of the United States in Japan to Midluno Idlumi no Kam, August 5, 1865

No. 3.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of yesterday, stating that your colleagues at Osacca had commissioned two war steamers to cruise off the coast of Nagato for the suppression of illicit traffic, and, in reply, to inform you that I have this day given notice to that effect to the consuls of the United States in Japan, and consul general at Shanghai, for the information of the American consulates in China.

I transmit herewith a copy of that notice, and also an additional one, should you desire to send to each of the war steamers named in your letter a copy certified, and under the seal of this legation.

With respect and esteem,