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

E. Morgan, surveyor, her Majesty’s customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.

Surveyor’s Office, Customs, October, 9, 1863.

Gentlemen: I hereby beg to give you notice that, by directions of the honorable commissioners of customs, I have this day seized the iron-clad vessel now lying in the great float, Birkenhead.

Respectfully,

EDWARD MORGAN, Surveyor.

Messrs. Laird.