Mr. Chang Yen Hoon
to Mr. Bayard.
Chinese
Legation,
Washington, D.
C., January 7, 1889.
(Received January 7.)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note proposing 12 o’clock noon, Friday, the 11th
instant, for me to call at the State Department to receive the payment
of the indemnity money, $276,619.75, appropriated by the Congress.
I will, with pleasure, call at the appointed hour and receive the payment
in person.
Accept, etc.,
receipt for the indemnity.
Know all men that I, the undersigned, Chang Yen Hoon, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Imperial Majesty,
the Emperor of China to the United States, having been duly and
specially empowered thereunto by the Imperial decree of China, do
hereby acknowledge that I have this day received from the Honorable
Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State of the United States, in the
name and on behalf of the Government of China, the sum of two
hundred and seventy-six thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars
and seventy-five cents ($276,619.75), which was appropriated by an
act of the Congress of the United States, approved October 19, 1888,
“out of humane consideration and without reference to the question
of liability therefor,” to be paid “to the Chinese Government as
full indemnity for all losses and injuries sustained by Chinese
subjects within the United States at the hands of residents
thereof.”
In witness whereof, and in full
discharge and acquittance of and for the said payment, I have
hereunto set my hand and official seal, at the city of
Washington District of Columbia,
this eleventh
day of January, A. D. 1889.
[
seal.]
Chang Yen Hoon.
