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. 206.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, May 9, 1888.

No. 315.]

Sir: I desire to acknowledge receipt of your dispatch No. 595 of March 19, 1888, and to say that the Department has read with interest your very thorough discussion of the subject of land tenure in China. The question is one of much importance and the Department will in its future consideration of the subject, derive great assistance from the exposition of the methods of transfer of title to land in China which the dispatch contains.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.