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

Mr. F. W. Seward. to Mr. Geofroy

Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 28th ultimo relative to certain duties exacted of Messrs. Brulaton & Co., of New Orleans, and, in reply, to inform you that I have transmitted a translation thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury, who has been requested to investigate the matter, with a view to the adoption of such proceedings as the result may call for.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

Mr. L. de Geofroy, &c., &c., &c.