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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burlingame

No. 38.]

Department of State, Washington, September 4, 1863.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch (No. 34) of the 12th of April last, relative to the modification of the 21st article of the treaty of peace, amity, and commerce between the United States and China, of the 18th June, 1858, and to state, in reply, that the Senate of the United States will be consulted on the subject at the approaching session of Congress.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.