Mr. Seward to Mr.
Hale
No. 33.]
Department of State, Washington, July 7, 1866.
Sir: Information has been received at this
department from the United States consul at Malaga that an order had
been issued to the sanitary board of Cadiz, Seville, and Malaga,
directing them to consider all ports of the United States as infected
with cholera. This information was communicated to the Secretary of the
Treasury. I have now to enclose a copy of his reply, and also to
instruct you to take such measures with reference to the restriction of
the quarantine imposed upon vessels of the United States by her Catholic
Majesty’s government as may seem to you to be advisable under the
circumstances.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
John P. Hale, Esq.,
&c., &c., &c.
Mr. McCulloch to Mr. Seward
Treasury
Department,
June 29, 1866.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt from your department of despatch No. 50, from Mr. A. M.
Hancock, United States consul at Malaga, Spain, stating that her
Majesty’s government had issued an order to the sanitary board of
Cadiz, Seville, and Malaga, directing them to consider all ports of
the United States as infected with cholera,
and beg leave to state that the cholera has not appeared as an
epidemic at any port or place in the United States during the
present year, nor am I aware of its existence now in any form within
the United States.
Very respectfully,
H. McCULLOCH, Secretary of the
Treasury.
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
