Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, December 12, 1862.

Mr. Seward presents his compliments to Lord Lyons, and has the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a letter of this date from the War Department in relation to the British steamer Labuan.

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War Department, Washington, December 12, 1862.

Sir: The Secretary of War has had the honor to receive your note of yesterday, touching the longer detention of the steamer Labuan, and I am instructed to say that the Secretary of the Treasury has been formally advised that this department has now no objection to the immediate clearance and departure of that vessel.

I have the honor to be your obedient servant,

C. P. WOLCOTT, Assistant Secretary of War.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.