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

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Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, August 8, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 5th instant.

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I take note with satisfaction of the assurance given by you, sir, and by the Secretary of War, 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 the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c, &c., &c.