Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress

[Circular—No. 18.]

To the diplomatic and consular officers of the United States in foreign countries.

Department of State, Washington, August 8, 1862.

It is expected that, until further notice, you will not issue a passport to any citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, and otherwise liable to the performance of military duty, who you may have reason to suppose shall have left the United States subsequently to this date.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.