China.
[637] Mr. George F. Seward to Mr. Seward.
Consulate of the United States,
Shanghai,
February 21, 1863.
[640] By the President of the United States of America.
Done at the city of
Washington
this first
day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United
States of America the eighty-seventh.