Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.
My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, which was accompanied by a copy of the Canada Gazette extra, of the 6th instant, containing a proclamation of the same date, issued by his excellency the governor general of Canada, prohibing the exportation from that province of anthracite coal in any manner or way whatever.
In reply, I have the honor to inform your lordship that the course of his excellency in making an unqualified prohibition of such coal from Canada is highly satisfactory to this government. A copy of your lordship’s note and of his excellency’s proclamation has been communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury as fulfilling, so far as it can be done in advance, the conditions upon which the executive order of the President of the United States of the 30th ultimo, a transcript of which accompanied my note of the same date to your lordship, was to go into effect.
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,
Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.