To His Excellency John A. Bingham to Terashima Munenori, November 30, 1874

Mr. Bingham to Mr. Terashima.

Your Excellency: I have the honor to, acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, of date the 10th instant, inclosing a copy of the revised hunting regulations recently framed by the Japanese government, together with a protocol in relation thereto, which your excellency has submitted for approval to the several foreign representatives.

In concert with the other foreign representatives, having considered your excellency’s dispatch, with its inclosures, I have the honor to inform your excellency that, in common with my colleagues, I regard the provisions of the hunting regulations which your excellency desires to apply to foreigners resident in Japan as just and reasonable; but inasmuch as the protocol proposed by your excellency for my approval provides for certain changes in the existing treaties, I concur with my colleagues in asking your excellency to consent to the postponement of further discussion on the subject until all the foreign representatives shall have made the necessary reference to their respective governments, and shall have received such instructions and powers as may be necessary to enable them to act upon your excellency’s propositions.

I have the honor to be, your excellences obedient servant,