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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Tassara.

Department of State, Washington, February 28, 1866.

Sir: This government having been officially apprised of the resumption of hostilities by Peru against Spain, I am directed by the President to state, for the information of your government, that, in the treatment of armed vessels of both belligerents within the maritime jurisdiction or in ports of the United States, the rules of public law and the statute of the United States upon the subject of neutrality will be strictly and impartially observed.

I avail myself of this occasion to offer to you renewed assurances of my highest consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Señor Don Gabriel Garcia y Tassara, &c., &c., &c.