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 13, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 7th instant, relating to the refusal of the collector of the port of New York to grant a clearance of certain goods shipped by Messrs. Darrell & Nash to Nassau, which case formed the subject of a previous correspondence. In reply I have the honor to state that a copy of that communication has been submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom all the papers in the case have been referred.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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