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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, June 8, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 27th ultimo relative to the complaint of Messieurs Henry de Cordova & Co., that peculiarly stringent bonds have been exacted of them upon shipments of goods to Jamaica from New York, and, in reply, to inform your lordship that I have submitted the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.