Victor Drummond to City of Washington , District of Columbia, ss: On this 25th day of March, A. D. 1885, before me, John J. Chew, a notary public in and for the city and district aforesaid, personally appeared Josiah H. Drummond, March 25, 1885

receipt of the executors of charles e. hill.

Know all men by these presents:

Whereas, by an act of Congress approved March 3, 1885, entitled “An act relative to the Chinese indemnity fund,” it was, among other things, enacted that the Secretary of State should pay from said fund to the executors of Charles E. Hill the sum of $130,000, upon receipt of a release in full for all claims upon China for the use and loss of the steamer Keorgeor, in or about 1863; and

Whereas, the undersigned, Josiah H. Drummond, jr., of Portland, Me., and Horatio N. Twombly, of New York City, are the duly appointed and qualified executors of the said Charles E. Hill, deceased, in said act mentioned, as by a certified copy of the letters testamentary to them issued, filed in the Department of State of the United States, will fully appear:

Now, therefore, know all men by these presents, that we, the undersigned, executors as aforesaid of the said Charles E. Hill, deceased, do hereby acknowledge to have received from the Secretary of State of the United States the sum of $130,000, paid by a check dated March 25, 1885, and drawn by the disbursing clerk of the Department of State, on Messrs. Riggs & Co., of Washington, D. C., in favor of Horatio N. Twombly and Josiah H. Drummond, jr., executors, for $26,000, and a draft drawn by Messrs. Riggs & Co., of Washington, D. C., dated March 25, 1885, on the Bank of America of New York City in favor of Horatio N. Twombly and Josiah H. Drummond, jr., executors, for $104,000, and that as such executors as aforesaid of the said Charles E. Hill we have remised, released, and forever discharged, and do by these presents remise, release, and forever discharge the Empire of China, and also the United States of America, of and from all claim or demand whatsoever, whether of the said Charles E. Hill, deceased, or of his estate, or of us as his executors, for or on account of the use and loss of the steamer Keorgeor, in or about the year 1863.