Mr. Seward to Mr. McMath.

No. 12.]

Sir: In further answer to your despatch of the 26th of March last, No. 19, submitting the form of a treaty proposed by his Majesty the Sultan to all foreign nations represented in Morocco, in reference to a light-house erected by his Majesty’s order on Cape Spartel, I have now the honor to transmit a copy of a letter of the 11th instant from the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom, as stated in my instruction of the 9th ultimo, the subject had been submitted for consideration. No objection is perceived to your entering into the proposed arrangement on behalf of the United States in the event of its being generally acceded to by the other foreign nations represented in Morocco, and you are consequently authorized to express your assent to it, conformably to the suggestions of the Secretary of the Treasury.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Jesse H. McMath, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Tangier.