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

Baron Saurma to Mr. Gresham.

[Translation.]

Imperial German Embassy,
Washington, November 23, 1893.

Mr. Secretary of State: In reply to the note of the Hon. Alvey A. Adee, acting Secretary of State, bearing date of the 22d of September last, the contents of which I brought without delay to the notice of the Imperial Government, I have the honor, in obedience to instructions received, herewith to in close the receipt of Mr. Schmidt, the municipal president of Apia, for 2,100 marks ($500), being the American Government’s quota of his traveling expenses. This sum, which the American Government, in its note of September 22d, expressed its willingness to refund to the Imperial Government, is offset by the $500 which the American Government is entitled to receive from the German Government as the latter’s quota of Mr. Ide’s traveling expenses. As these amounts just balance each other, I have been instructed to transmit Mr. Schmidt’s receipt to the Department of State, requesting in return a similar receipt for the amount of Germany’s quota of Mr. Ide’s expenses, which latter receipt I am to forward to Berlin.

As regards the $500, which is the American Government’s quota of the traveling expenses of Baron Senfft von Pilsach, the German consul at Apia was instructed, on the 4th ultimo, on the strength of your excellency’s note of the 31st of August last (a copy of which was likewise laid before the Imperial Government), to collect this amount from the American representative at Apia. The inclosed voucher for $500, which has been sent to this embassy, is consequently returned unsigned.

I avail myself, etc.,

Saurma.

The United States to Baron Senfft von Pilsach, Dr.

[On account of the appropriation for protecting the interests of the United States in the Samoan Islands.]

Sept. 22, 1893. On account of expenses of transit home from Apia, Samoa, to Berlin, Germany. $500

Received this —— day of—, 189–, from F. J. Kieckhoeffer, disbursing clerk, Department of State, live hundred dollars, in full payment of the above account. $500.

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[Translation.]

Receipt.

I hereby acknowledge the receipt of 2,100 (two thousand one hundred) marks, or 500 (five hundred) dollars in U. S. currency, being the quota of the Government of the United States of America of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars which has been allowed to me for the payment of my traveling expenses to Apia, the said five hundred dollars having been paid to me for the United States Government by the Imperial foreign office at Berlin.

E. Schmidt,
President of the Municipal Council of Apia.

Berlin, September 21, 1893.