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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 878.]

Department of State, Washington, March 21, 1864.

Sir: Mr. Dudley, our consul at Liverpool, has made a report to this department upon the delays of the proceedings, on our requisition, in the case of the pirate Joseph L. Gerity. I trust that you are doing what can be done to secure a surrender of the offenders.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, &c., &c., &c.