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Japan has been pleased to confer upon you the decoration of the Second Order of 
the Rising Sun. I trust that the same will be transmitted to you in due course. 
Iam, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
Naito Ruwiro, Chargé @ Affaires. 
Gen. Horace Capron, Washington City. 
(No. 2.) 
ForEIGN OFFICE, 
Tokyo, January 18, 1884. (The 17th Year of Meiji.) 
Str: Gen. Horace Capron, of the United States of America, formerly commissioner 
and adviser in chief to the Kai Taki Shi, discharged his duties with great diligence 
“and much satisfaction for more than four years, from the fourth to the eighth Meiji 
inclusive. He visited the island of Hokkaido or Yesso many times and traversed its 
wilderness to observe its climate and to ascertain its mineral and other resources. 
He laid out the full plan and gave orders for the execution of various works, and he 
submitted all necessary reports with courtesy and kindness. 
Now the work of the said department has been nearly completed and the island 
placed in a condition to insure its future prosperity, with roads, harbors, factories, 
and public works established therein, showing the results and benefits of General 
Capron’s services. 
His Imperial Majesty has appreciated his work, and is now pleased to confer upon 
him the ‘‘Decoration of the Seeond Order of the Rising Sun.”’ 
I send you the said decoration, together with its indicative button, and the diploma 
for the decoration, which you will deliver to General Capron on their arrival. 
You will deliver the decoration to General Capron through the Department of 
State, thus to show our special appreciation of his services in a formal way, he haying 
resigned his office under the United States Government to accept one under ours. I 
hope General Capron may feel thus more honored for this formal way of transmitting 
the decoration. 
Ito Hirosumt, 
Counselor of State, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
Narro Rurt1ro, 
Chargé @ Affaires, Legation of Japan, Washington, D. C., U. S.A. 
(No. 3.) 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
Washington, February 25, 1884. 
It gives me pleasure to transmit to you, at the instance of the Japanese legation at 
this capital, the accompanying decoration and diploma conferred upon you by His 
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and to congratulate you upon this compli- 
mentary recognition of your personal services in that country. 
F I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
Frepx. T. FRELINGHUYSEN. 
Hon. Horace Capron, . 
Washington City, D. C. 
[Translation of diploma. ] 
Mutsu Hito, by the grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, and seated upon a throne 
occupied by the same dynasty from time immemorial, doth in token of our esteem 
hereby confer the Second Order of the ‘‘ Rising Sun”’ upon Horace Capron, late com- 
missioner and adviser in chief to the Kai Takti Shi department of our Government. 
In testimony whereof, we have set our hand and caused the Great Seal of Japan 
to be thereto affixed. 
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