[Untitled], Keio 3d year, 26th day of 7th month, (August 26, 1867.)

[Untitled]

His Excellency R. B. Van Valkenburgh, Minister Resident of the United States of America :

I have the honor to bring to your excellency’s notice, enclosing a copy of the regulations, that respecting the frontier on the island Karaft, (Saghalien,) between Russia and Japan.

Kaide Yamato No Kami, governor for foreign affairs, who has been sent last year as envoy to the capital of Russia on the conference upon the subject with M. Stremoonkhow, plenipotentiary and director of the Asiatic department in the same country, has exchanged the regulations, of which Yamato No Kami, on his return, has stated to the government.

With respect and esteem,