Letter
Van Buren to Bingham, January 16, 1877
[Inclosure 1 in No. 495.]
Mr. Van Buren to Mr. Bingham.
United States Consulate-General, Kanagawa (Yokohama), Japan, January 16, 1877.
No. 2369.]
Sir: Herewith I have the honor to transmit to you a statement prepared by Capt. Crocker Nye, now in command of the Tamamura-Maru, of the Mitsu-Bishi M. S. S. Company, concerning certain property owned by himself and other American citizens at the Bonin Islands, and the alleged action taken in connection therewith by the Japanese authorities in December last, for all of which I beg your careful consideration.
All the parties referred to as owners of the property are Americans.
Captain Pease, as you are aware, is dead.
I am, &c.,
THOS. B. VAN BUREN.
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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.