Letter
TERASHIMA MUNENORI, His Imperial Japanese Majesty’s Minister for Foreign Affairs to Bingham, October 17, 1876
[Inclosure 1 in No. 457.]
Japanese minister (foreign affairs) to Mr. Bingham.
Foreign Office, Tokei,
The 17th day, 10th month, the 9th year of Meiji.
The 17th day, 10th month, the 9th year of Meiji.
Sir: I have the honor of informing your excellency that in view of the increasing; immigration into the Ogasawara Shima, a group of islands part of our dependencies lying to the southward of the empire, and of which a practical examination was made by officers commissioned to that effect by my government last year, the eighth year Meiji, there will be established there a government office and officers sent thereto surpervise the affairs of the islands, conforming themselves to the regulations of which I have the honor to herewith forward to your excellency a copy of each set.
With respect and consideration,
TERASHIMA MUNENORI,
His Imperial Japanese Majesty’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.
His Imperial Japanese Majesty’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.