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, August 20, 1864.

My Lord: Referring to your note of the 13th instant, and to my reply of the 18th in regard to the modification of the executive order of the President of the United States of the 14th of April, 1862, I have the honor to enclose, for your lordship’s information and use, three printed copies of an instruction of the 17th instant, issued by the Acting Secretary of the Treasury to the proper officers on the subject.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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

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Treasury Department, August 17, 1864.

This department having been officially notified that the conditions named in the Executive order of the 30th July, 1864, have been complied with by the government of Canada, to wit, that the exportation of anthracite coal from the province of Canada should be prohibited, the instructions of this department, heretofore issued, prohibiting the exportation of anthracite coal from the United States are hereby so far modified that such coal may be exported except by sea into Canada, without restriction.

GEORGE HARRINGTON, Acting Secretary of the Treasury.