Received, June 18th, 1896, from T. R. Jernigan, esq., consul-general
of the United States at Shanghai, China, taels Shanghai sycee
fourteen thousand three hundred and five (Shang. Sy. Tls. 14,305),
paid to me, the treasurer of the eastern, central, and western China
missions of the American Baptist Missionary Union, as indemnity
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by China on account of the
destruction of the property of the Baptist missions of the aforesaid
American Baptist Missionary Union at their several stations in the
province of Szechuan, China, by Chinese rioters in the spring of
1895. The said amount was paid to Consul-General Jernigan by the
Shanghai taotai, and Consul-General Jernigan was authorized by
Minister Charles Denby to receive and pay the same to the
representatives of the Baptist missions named, and I hereby make
oath that I, Josiah R. Goddard, who sign this receipt, am the
legally authorized representative to receive and receipt for the
said sum of taels Shanghai sycee fourteen thousand three hundred and
five on behalf of the said Baptist mission, and do hereby receive
and receipt therefor.
Given under my hand and seal this the date above written.
Subscribed to before me this eighteenth day of June, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six.
John Fowler,
U. S. Consul.
