Letter
PORTMAN, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim in Japan to George S. Fisher, September 9, 1865
No. 6.
Mr. Portman to Mr. Fisher
Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, September 9, 1865.
Sir: In amendment of the desire expressed in my letter to you, No 90, (enclosure No. 5,) of the 7th instant, I now have the honor to request you to present the complaints of the American merchants for interference in the purchase by them of silk-worm eggs for examination to the present governor of Kanagawa, who, in conjunction with a governor for foreign affairs, if necessary, has been authorized to examine the same. In compliance with the suggestion made, it has been deemed necessary that an investigation of the said complaints at your port, where witnesses, if required, may be examined, would lead more promptly to the result desired.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
A. L. C. PORTMAN, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim in Japan.
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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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.