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

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The Admiralty to Laird Brothers.

Admiralty, December 12, 1863.

Gentlemen: I have received and laid before my lords commissioners of the admiralty your letter of the 7th instant, calling attention to the present condition of the two steam vessels, El Tousson and El Monnassir, and as to the preservation of the property on board from injury, &c.

I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

C. PAGET.

Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead.