Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Romero,

Department of State, Washington, January 31, 1866.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your two communications of the 21st and 28th instant, with their respective accompaniments, relative to the formation of an express company in the city of New York, under a grant emanating from the so-called emperor of Mexico, and which you are pleased to communicate for the information of the government of the United States.

Thanking you for your kind courtesy, I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration. *

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Señor Matias Romero, &c., &c., &c., Washington, D. C.