Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 37.
Mr. Tree to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States.
Brussels, June 30, 1888. (Received July 16.)

No. 359.]

Sir: As the money coined and put in circulation by a new state has, perhaps, a certain interest, I have ventured to send you to-day by post, under a separate cover, specimens of the first moneys ever coined by the Independent State of the Congo.

The package contains specimens of pieces of a half franc, and of 1, 2, and 5 francs in silver, and of 1, 2, 5, and 10 centimes in copper. No gold pieces have been coined as yet.

I have, etc.,

Lambert Tree.