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. 72.]

Department of State, Washington, September 14, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 18th of June, No. 83, enclosing a copy of your communication of the 15th of the same month to the Consul General Seward, containing your construction of the rights and duties of American citizens in China, directions in relation to ships and passports, and general suggestions in reference to the co-operative policy agreed upon by the representatives of the treaty powers at Peking, has been received, and it is approved with much commendation.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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