Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Toru Hoshi to Mr. Day.

Legation of Japan,
Washington , May 26, 1898 .

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.