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, October 3, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th ultimo, in which you inform me of the views of her Britannic Majesty’s government in regard to sections 27 and 28 of the prize act, passed on the 30th June, 1864. In reply I have the honor to state that due consideration will be given to the subject.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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