Baron Saurma to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, March 6, 1894.
Sir: With reference to your note of January 13 last, relative to the payment of the quota due by the governments of the treaty powers on account of the traveling expenses of the foreign officials in Samoa, I have the honor to inform you in pursuance of instructions received, that the certified copy of the voucher signed by the chief justice, Mr. Ide, on September 22, 1893, for the receipt of $1,000, has not been considered sufficient by the auditing department of the service, in order to show the payment of $500 to Mr. Ide by the German Government.
I have, therefore, to avail myself of the kind offer expressed in the Department’s note referred to above, and beg to request you kindly to ask Chief Justice Ide, in Apia, to sign and return to you for transmission to this embassy a receipt for $500, being the quota due by the German Government on account of his traveling expenses from the United States to Samoa.
Accept, etc.,