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. 81.]

Department of State, Washington, September 20, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 26th of May, No. 73, and the accompanying copy of the correspondence with the Chinese government in relation to smuggling and arrests on the Yangtse.

Your proceedings in regard to the matters embraced in the correspondence are approved.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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