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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Tassara.

Department of State, Washington, August 2, 1866.

Sir: I have the honor now to recur to the note with which you favored me on the 28th of July last, concerning the case of the Meteor. The opinion of the Attorney General has been taken upon the question which was submitted in that note. That opinion is that neither the Attorney General, nor any other executive department, has any control over the proceeding in the United States district court by which the Meteor was released from official custody.

The undersigned offers to Mr. Tassara on this occasion renewed assurance of his very high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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