Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume II

No. 505.
Mr. Schuyler to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, May 15, 1875. (Received June 3.)

No. 116.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that a treaty has been concluded between Russia and Japan, by which Russia cedes to Japan the Kurile Islands, in exchange for all the rights of Japan to the island of Saghalien.]

I understand that the treaty has already been ratified by the Emperor of Russia.

I have, &c.,

EUGENE SCHUYLER.