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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Her Majesty’s Treasury to Laird Brothers.

Treasury Chambers, January 14, 1864.

Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of the 12th instant, proposing that the El Tousson and El Monnassir should be placed in the Birkenhead docks, and there completed, I am commanded by the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to inform you that their lordships regret that they are unable to comply with your request.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

GEO. A. HAMILTON.

Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead.