Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Mr. Foster to Mr. Herbert.

Department of State,
Washington, September 29, 1892.

Sir: With respect to your note of August 26 with two inclosures relative to a difference of opinion which has arisen as to the appointment (sic, apportionment) of the import and export duties in Samoa leviable under Article vi of the Berlin general act, I have the honor to call your attention to the fact that its second inclosure, viz, a copy of your note from the Marquis of Salisbury to Count Hatzfeldt dated August 12, does not relate to the foregoing subject but is presumed to have reference to the dispatch of Her British Majesty’s consul in Apia dated May 26, a copy of which you transmitted to me in your note of July 11. As you inquired whether the views of Her Majesty’s Government, as explained in the correspondence, meet with the concurrence of this Government, I am led to believe that a part of it must have been inadvertently omitted.

I have, etc.,

John W. Foster.