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 5, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 24th ultimo, relative to the case of Messrs. Darrell & Nash, British merchants, who were refused a clearance by the customs authorities at New York, for goods shipped by them for Nassau. In reply, I have the honor to inform you that I have recalled the attention of the Secretary of the Treasury 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.