Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 149.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Williams.

Department of State,
Washington, August 29, 1874.

No. 179.]

Sir: I inclose, for your information and that of Mr. Avery, a copy of an instruction of the 26th instant, No. 409,^* addressed by this Department to George F. Seward, esq., the consul-general of the United States at Shanghai, in relation to participation of citizens of the United States in the Japanese expedition to Formosa.

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

1. See correspondence with the consul-general in China.