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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 900.]

Department of State, Washington, April 5, 1864.

Sir: We are informed by Mr. Dudley that the case of the extradition of the pirates who captured the United States schooner Joseph L. Gerrity is to be removed to London for final decision. Instructions in regard to the questions involved in that case, and also in that of the pirates of the Chesapeake, including a disquisition on the article of the Ashburton treaty, and the laws for carrying it into effect, will probably be forwarded to you by the next steamer.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.