LIST OF PAPERS.


TURKISH EMPIRE.

   OTTOMAN PORTE.


No.



759


760

761

762



763

764

765

766

767
768
769


770


771

772

773

774

775

776

777
778

779

780


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  Mr. Baker to Mr. Fish ......


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Mr. Goodenow to Mr. Fish.

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Mr. Fish to Aristarchi Bey..


  Date.


  1873.
  July 17


July 22

July 29

Aug. 13



Aug. 14

Aug. 25

Sept. 4

Sept. 19

Oct.  3
Oct.  6
Nov. 8


Dec. 26

  1874.
Jan. 3

Jan. 29

Feb. 17

Mar. 18

Apr. 7

Apr. 14

Apr. 23
Mar. 24

May 26

July 28


  natLu   Un ni ed zUl ta aes Will not e represented
  in the commission.
Same subject-....................................-....
Proposed judicial reform in Egypt-................
International-tonnage commission: intention of
  the Ottoman government to invite the United
  States to participate; instructions for the dele-
  gates of the Ottoman government.
Inclosing telegram from the consul at Canea re-
  specting the successful laying of a telegraph
  between Alexandria and Sitia.

tRgsuml of the proceedings of the international-
  tonnage commission.
New Ottoman stamp-tax law; relations of the
  Ottoman government with other powers.


Hussein Avni .Uasha appointed grand vizier; his
  installation.


Abridgment of the final report of the international-
  tonnage commission held at Constantinople.
Three Turks professing Christianity drafted into
  the military service of the Porte.
Religious questions between the "Itassounists"
  and "Anti-Hassounists."
Report upon the financial condition of Turkey....
Conclusions reached by the international-tonnage
  commission at Constantinople.
Same subject; views of the Secretary of the Treas-
  ury.
Same subject; American vessels likely to visit
  the Suez 9ssaa1will receive a special certificate
  of admeas.einment.


EGYPT.


Mr. Beardsley to Mr. Fish...
Mr. Babbitt to Mr. Fish -. - -.
Mr. Beardsley to Mr. Fish...
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1873.
May    7
July   1
Sept. 3
Sept. 10
Sept. 16
Oct.   6

Oct.   7

Oct. 24
Nov. 10
Nov. 28


Expedition of Sir Samuel Baker ..................
Same subject ......................................
Same subject......................................
Proposed judicial reform in Egypt-................
The slavery question in Egypt ".................
Same subject; proposed treaty with Great Britain
  providing for the eventual emancipation of
  slaves in Egypt. 
Difficulty between the Khedive and American
  missionaries respecting property held by them.
Egyptian budget.................................
Firman granted by the Sultan to the Khedive ---.
Liberation of slaves in Egypt by the interposition
  of foreign consular officers ; no progress toward
  concluding the proposed treaty with Great
  Britain respecting slaves.


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                   Subject.


Inclosing copy of the report of the commission
  appointed for the purpose of interpreting the
  words tonneau de capacitl in the firman issued to
  the Suez Canal Company.
Interdiction of the exportation of beasts of bur-
  den from the ports of Beirut, Mersina, and Alex-
  andretta for four years.
Interpretation of Article 17 in the charter of the
  Suez Canal Company; contemplated interna-
  tional-tonnage commission.
Second circular-letter from the Porte respecting
  the tolls charged by the Suez Canal Company;
  the international-tonnage commission to meet
  at Constantinople September 15; asks instruc-
  tions ah to delegates from the United States.
Proposed form-of adhesion to the project of Egyp-
  tian judicial reform intended to be signed by the
  representatives of foreign powers.
Slave-traffic from Africa to the Levant by the way
of Malta; slave-trade in Turkey.
Proposed international-tonnage commission- cor-
  respondence with the Department of State; cir-
  cular of the Ottoman government.
Same subject; disappointment at the possibility
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783
784
785
786

787

788
789
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