Office of the Historian

Mr. Foster to Baron Ketteler.

Department of State,
Washington, September 27, 1892.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a note of the 19th instant from Mr. Herbert, Her Britannic Majesty’s chargé d’affaires ad interim at this capital, relative to a difference of opinion which has arisen between the consular board and the municipal council regarding the appointment of returning officers for municipal elections in Samoa.

I also inclose a copy of my reply in which the view of the British Government is concurred in, that the question at issue is properly one for the decision of the chief justice.

Accept, etc.,

John W. Foster.