Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Conger to Mr. Blaine.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Rio de Janeiro, December 4, 1891. (Received January 7, 1892.)

No. 167.]

Sir: In my dispatch No. 101, of July 27 last, I stated that I had written our consular agent at Manaos for definite information in regard to the levying by the State of Amazonas of 5 per cent duty on transit shipments of rubber through that port, and that I had received information later from the minister from Peru that said tax was abolished and amounts already paid ordered refunded.

I have, etc.,

E. H. Conger.