The Japanese Chargé to the Secretary of State.

No. 12.]

Sir: I have the honor to request you, under instructions, to be so good as to instruct by telegraph the American ambassador at St. Petersburg to hand over the Japanese legation, which is now under his kind care, to Mr. Tano, third secretary of legation, who has been ordered by Mr. Motono, newly appointed Japanese minister to Russia, to directly proceed to St. Petersburg on the 8th instant in order to make necessary preparation for the reopening of the imperial legation there.

Accept, etc.

Eki Hioki.