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

S. Price Edwards, esq., collector of customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.

Custom-House, Liverpool, October 27, 1864.

Gentlemen: I hereby beg to inform you that your two cupola vessels are now detained, under the 223d section of “the customs consolidated act,” the ground of detention being a violation of “the foreign enlistment act.” And I take leave further to state that the officers in charge have received directions to remove your workman at once from on board the ships.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

S. PRICE EDWARDS, Collector.

Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead.