Letter

PORTMAN, Acting Chargé d’Affaires of the United States in Japan to Robertson, May 28, 1866

Author

PORTMAN, Acting Chargé d’Affaires of the United States in Japan

Recipient

Robertson

Date

May 28, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 3.

Mr. Portman to Mr. Robertson.

Legation of the United States in Japan, Yokohama, May 28, 1866.

Sir: With reference to the letter addressed to you by the representatives of Great Britain, France, the United States, and the Netherlands, dated the 26th instant, desiring you to pay to the order of each of them the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ($250,000,) being one-fourth of a sum of one million clean Mexican dollars ($1,000,000) received from the Japanese government and now held by you on account of the said four powers, I have the honor to request you to pay into the Central Bank of Western India at this place, duly authorized by me to receive the same, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ($250,000,) being the share of the United States

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. L. C. PORTMAN, Acting Chargé d’Affaires of the United States in Japan.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty 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 Second Session of the Thirty.