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

[Immediate.]

Her Majesty’s Treasury to Laird Brothers.

2,1858/2.

Treasury Chambers, February 8, 1864.

Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of 3d instant, I am commanded by the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to acquaint you that they are informed that an “information” in the case of the iron-clad vessels built by you, and now under seizure by her Majesty’s government, will be filed in a few days, and that it may be necessary to send a commission aboard for the purpose of collecting evidence.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

G. A. HAMILTON.

Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead Iron Works, Birkenhead.