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. Prevost.

Department of State, Washington, July 3, 1866.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 16, of June 10th last, communicating your action with regard to the instalment due from the government of Ecuador, under the convention of November, 1862.

Your proceedings in the premises are approved, and you will in future be guided by the same instructions which moved your action in this matter.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

L. V. Prevost, Esq., &c., &c., &c.