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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, August 5, 1864.

My Lord :

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It further appears that hereafter, when application shall be made for the discharge of an alleged subject of a foreign power, the man whose discharge is applied for will be retained at the draft rendezvous, or, if in active service, sent to said rendezvous until an investigation can be made in his case.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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