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

Lord Lieutenant, Sheriff, and Commissioners of Supply of Lanark

Lanark, May 1, 1865

county of lanark, scotland.

At a general meeting of the lord lieutenant, sheriff, and commissioners of supply of the county of Lanark, and of the provosts and chief magistrates of the city of Glasgow, royal burghs of Lanark, Rutherglen, and burghs of Hamilton and Airdrie, holden at Lanark, on the 1st day of May, 1865, it was, on motion of the Right Honorable Lord Belhaven and Hamilton, K. T., &c., &c., &c., lord lieutenant of the county, seconded by Sir Archibald Alison, baronet, sheriff of the county,

Unanimously resolved, That the meeting do give expression to the feelings of profound sorrow and of deep horror and detestation in which they, in common with all the inhabitants of the British islands, regard the late atrocious murder of President Lincoln, and the murderous assault upon the honorable Secretary Seward.

It was also

Unanimously resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to his excellency the minister of the United States for presentation to his government.

BELHAVEN AND HAMILTON,

Lieutenant and Convener of the County.