Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 493.11/471.

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury.

Department of State,
Washington, January 22, 1914.

Sir: Referring to your Department’s letter of January 10, 1914. relative to payments made by the Chinese Government on account of the Boxer Indemnity for 1913, I have the honor to request that the portion mentioned therein as due the United States, $539,798.06, be retained by your Department, and the amount refundable to China, $543,007.63, be remitted by check, through this Department, to the Charge d’Affaires of China, Washington, D. C.

I have [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

J. B. Moore

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