Office of the Historian

No. 110.
Mr. Seward to Mr. Noyes.

Department of State,
Washington, December 19, 1877.
No. 19.]

Sir: The following telegram was addressed to you upon the 16th instant, viz:

Invitation of French Government to United States to participate in the International Industral Exposition, accepted by Congress. Inform minister for foreign affairs accordingly. Governor McCormick, late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, appointed commissioner general. Commission will be organized immediately.

It is presumed, of course, that the instructions contained in the telegram have already been complied with. If, perchance, they have not been, you are requested to communicate the contents of the telegram to the minister for foreign affairs.

I am, &c.,

F. W. SEWARD,
Acting Secretary.