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

No. 315.
Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Fish.

Washington, January 24, 1874. (Received January 28.)

Sir: With reference to my note of yesterday’s date upon the subject of the coolie trade, I have the honor to inform you that I have this day received a dispatch from Earl Granville, in which he states that a telegram has been received from Her Majesty’s consul at Canton to the effect that a proclamation has been issued by the governor of Macao, ordering the cessation, within three months, of cooly-emigration from that port.

I have, &c.,

EDW’D THORNTON.