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, March 24, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum of the 19th instant, relative to the general order of the War Department, No. 82, of the 21st of July, 1862, concerning the administration of oaths to aliens, and to state, in reply, that the attention of the Secretary of War has been invited to it.

I have the honor to be, your very obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.