Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 1954.]

Department of State, Washington, March 29, 1867.

Sir: I transmit for your information and guidance, and for communication to the government of Great Britain, a copy of an instruction^* of the 25th instant, No. 194, which has been addressed to Mr. Burlingame, the United States minister in China, and of the papers which accompanied it, in relation to the subject of certain regulations issued by the consul general of France at Shanghai.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

[Same, mutatis mutandis, to Messrs. Dix and Clay.]

1. For enclosure, see instruction No. 194, to United States minister to China.