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, July 17, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum of yesterday, relative to the promised answer of the Secretary of the Treasury, with reference to the cancelling of certain bonds taken by the custom-house authorities at New York upon the shipment of merchandise to the Bahama islands, and to state that the attention of Mr. Chase has been directed to the matter.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons.