Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 8, 1885

No. 486.

Mr. Porter to Mr. Lewis.

Department of State,
Washington, August 12, 1885.

No. 11.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 11, and to express satisfaction with the tenor of the note from the foreign office, a copy of which you inclose, promising measures of redress in the case of the missionaries, American citizens, lately expelled from Bihé and Bailunda, West Africa. It is hoped that their property will be recovered and that their future immunity from molestation is secured.

I am, &c.,

JAS. D. PORTER,
Acting Secretary.