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

Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Burnley.

Department of State, Washington, September 3, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, relative to the capture of the British sloop Racer, of Nassau, and, in reply, to inform you that I have transmitted a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Navy, who has been requested to investigate the case, with a view to the adoption of such proceedings as the result may call for.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

F.W.SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c, &c., &c.