Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 59.
Mr. Davis to Mr. Tsai Kwoh Ching.

Department of State,
Washington, July 31, 1884.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of to-day’s date, concerning the arrival at San Francisco of twenty-four Chinese merchants bearing proper certificates under the law of May 6, 1882, and who have been denied permission to land by the customs authorities at that port for non-compliance with the provisions of the amendatory act of July 5, 1884.

I have had pleasure in transmitting a copy of your note to the Secretary of the Treasury, and in requesting him to telegraph the necessary instructions to the collector at San Francisco to permit the Chinese in question to land, as desired.

I avail, &c.,

JOHN DAVIS,
Acting Secretary.