Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 145.
Mr. Denby to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Peking, September 29, 1887. (Received November 25.)

No. 464.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that the third installment of the indemnity fund (6,000 taels) to the American missionaries was paid to Mr. Cockburn, Her Britannic Majesty’s consular agent at Chung King, the 3d instant. This sum has been placed by Mr. Cockburn in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at Hankow to the credit of Dr. Crews.

I have, etc.,

Charles Denby.