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. Gresham to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, September 6, 1893.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th ultimo, in which you state that you are informed by your Government that the German Government is ready to take charge of Mataafa and eleven other chiefs on the Samoan Islands and keep them in the Marshall Islands, the expense of their maintenance to be divided between the three powers.

In view of the concurrence of Her Majesty’s Government, as expressed in your note, this arrangement is assented to by the Government of the United States.

I should be pleased to be advised of the probable expense to be so entailed.

I have, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.