Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1892

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Wurts.

Department of State,
Washington, May 17, 1892.

No. 171.]

Sir: The manager of the News and Courier, of Charleston, S. C., has forwarded to this Department a further check for the sum of $615.33, being the amount of additional contributions received by that newspaper for the sufferers from the Russian famine. You are authorized to draw on the Department for the amount above mentioned and to distribute it as before, one-half to the British-American Church, three-tenths to the Jewish Society, and two-tenths to Count Tolstoi.

I am, etc.,

James G. Blaine.