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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burlingame

No. 71.]

Department of State, Washington, September 14, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge, with much satisfaction, the receipt of your despatch of June, (No. 82,) in which you inform me that the Chinese government has agreed to the principle of the joint tribunal or mixed commission for the settlement of confiscation cases.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.