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

[Extract.]

Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward.

No. 52.]

Legation of the United States at the Republic of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, October 25, 1865.

Sir: * * * * *

Your instructions contained in despatch No. 37 shall be implicitly carried out and obeyed, and I herewith enclose to you a note dated the 23d instant, addressed to Don Francisco Cruz, minister of relations, &c.

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I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,

THOMAS H. CLAY.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

Mr. Clay to Mr. Cruz.

Legation of the United States at the Republic of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, October 23, 1865.

Sir: The minister resident of the United States at this republic takes occasion to inform the minister of relations, &c., of the government of this republic of the following instructions received from the State Department at Washington:

“With reference to the request for instructions you make in your despatch of August 9th, 1865, as to the recognition of a provisional President of Honduras, should a new constitution be adopted by the convention which was to meet at Comayagua, in the latter part of August, you are instructed not to make any recognition, and to take no proceedings in that connection until the proposed reform shall be consummated, and officially reported by you to the department.”

In transmitting the above to you for your information and intelligence, I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your obedient servant,

THOMAS H. CLAY.

Don Francisco Cruz, Minister of Relations and Governacion.