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 17, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 9th instant, and of its accompaniment from the colonial office, in which are given the reasons for not forwarding to the judge of the admiralty court at Halifax acopy of the fourth resolution of the New York Chamber of Commerce, containing an acknowledgment of his proceedings in the case of the Chesapeake. In reply, I have the honor to state, that a copy of that communication has been transmitted to the president of the Chamber of Commerce at New York.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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