Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 184.
Mr. Blaine to Mr. Angell.

Department of State,
Washington, November 17, 1881.

No. 135.]

Sir: Your dispatches numbered 177 to 216, both inclusive, have been received. Your action, reported in your No. 206, of August 30 last, respecting the service of summons on absent defendants in proceedings before the United States consular courts in China, is approved,

I am, sir. &c.,

JAMES G. BLAINE.