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 Llanidloes

Llanidloes, May 5, 1865

At the quarterly meeting of the council of the borough of Llanidloes, in the principality of Wales, Great Britain, held, pursuant to summons, on the 5th day of May, A. D. 1865, it was moved, seconded, and carried nem con.—

That the council of the borough of Llanidloes hereby unanimously express their extreme abhorrence of the assassination of the late lamented President Lincoln, and their deep sympathy and condolence with Mrs. Lincoln upon her great bereavement, and also with the American people for the great loss they have sustained, and at a very critical period of their history, of that most honest, sagacious, and concilatory statesman and patriot, their late President.

Signed on behalf of the council. [seal.]

THOS. F. ROBERTS,

Mayor.