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. 230.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, August 18, 1888.

No. 343.]

Sir: I herewith transmit, for your information, a copy of my note^* to the minister of Germany at this capital, dated the 17th instant, accompanied by a memorandum embodying the Department’s views touching the validity of marriages in China between subjects of that Empire and foreigners.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.

1. Mr. Bayard to Count Arco Valley, August 17, 1888, with inclosures, printed as Doc. No. 497 post, page 683.