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. Adee to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, October 4, 1893.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th ultimo, inclosing a check for $500, as the contribution of Her Majesty’s Government toward the traveling expenses of Mr. Ide, the new chief justice at Apia, under the agreement reached by the three treaty powers.

I inclose herewith Mr. Ide’s receipt for the amount mentioned.

In reply to the concluding paragraph of your note, I have to inform you that this Government has advanced to Mr. Ide the sum of $1,000 on account of his expenses in traveling to his post, and that $500 of this amount will be repaid by the German Government, to be covered into the Treasury.

I have, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.