Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Denby to Mr. Olney.

Legation of the United States,
Peking, August 20, 1896. (Received Sept. 28.)

No. 2579.]

Sir: In acknowledgment of your dispatch No. 1301, of the 13th ultimo, I have the honor to state that the claim referred to as still pending, in the Chinese minister’s note of the 8th July, copy of which is inclosed in the above dispatch, is the claim of the American Baptist Missionary Union, payment of which has heretofore been reported to the Department.

I have, etc.,

Charles Denby.