PORTMAN, Acting Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States in Japan to Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co, May 29, 1866
Mr. Portman to Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co.
Gentlemen: I transmit herewith the firsts of six sets of bills on London at six months, aggregating fifty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy pounds sixteen shillings eight pence sterling, (£56,770 16s. 8d.,) payable to the order of the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States. These bills, all of this date, are drawn by the Central Bank of Western India, at Yokohama, on the London County Bank, London, as follows:
| No. 41, favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c. | £10,000 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 42, favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c. | 10,000 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 43, favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c. | 10,000 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 44, favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c. | 10,000 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 45, favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c. | 10,000 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 46, favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c. | 6,770 | 16 | 8 |
| 56,770 | 16 | 8 |
Be pleased to cause these bills to be accepted and to advise the honorable the Secretary of State accordingly.
The seconds of the bills above mentioned, together with a copy of this letter to yourselves, will be sent by me to Washington via California by a vessel which sails from this port on the 31st instant.
I have the honor to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,