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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley.

Department of State, Washington, September 12, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 9th instant, with regard to orders which have recently been promulgated by the executive council of Nova Scotia, relative to vessels-of-war of the United States, and of the so-called Confederate States, on their approaching or entering the harbor of Halifax. In reply, I have the honor to state that a copy of that communication has been submitted to the Secretary of the Navy.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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