Mr. Toru Hoshi to Mr. Day.

No. 31.]

Sir: Referring to my note dated the 23d instant, in which I had the pleasure to inform you of the passage by the Imperial Diet of a bill repealing the law granting a bounty on the export of certain classes of raw silk, I have the honor to state that I am in receipt of a telegram from my Government informing me that the act in question has received the Imperial sanction, and was to-day duly promulgated as law, to take effect immediately.

Accept, etc.,

Toru Hoshi.