Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 84.
Mr. Borges to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of Brazil in the United States,
New York, June 12, 1879.

Mr. Secretary of State: I had the honor duly to receive the note which your excellency did me the honor to address to me on the 3rd of March last, inclosing a letter addressed to your excellency by the chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate in reference to a law for the punishment of the crime of counterfeiting the paper currency of foreign governments in the United States.

Your excellency’s note having been laid before the imperial government, the latter was gratified to learn that the Department of State had thus complied with the request of this legation, and it hopes that the matter will again be brought before Congress at its next session, as is indicated in the aforesaid note of the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

I avail myself of this occasion to reiterate to your excellency the assurance of my highest esteem and consideration.

A. P. de CAEVALHO BORGES.

His Excellency W. M. Evarts,
Secretary of State of the United States, &c., &c., &c.