Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

Municipal Council of Falkirk

Falkirk, May 3, 1865

Excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of the provost magistrates and council of the burgh of Falkirk, held on the 3d day of May, 1865.

Provost Keir in the chair. It was moved by Provost Keir—

That this meeting agrees to enter on its records an expression of deep sympathy with the government and people of the United States of America under the calamity which has befallen them through the assassination of President Lincoln, and its entire concurrence in the universal detestation with which that crime is looked on in Great Britain.

The motion was seconded by Bailie Wyse, and unanimously carried.

Excerpted from the minutes of council by—

ROBERT HENDERSON, Town Clerk.