Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 141.

Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft.

No. 228.]

Department of State, Washington, August 30, 1870.

Sir: I transmit herewith a copy of a dispatch of this date to Mr. Washburne, in answer to a telegram received from him yesterday, which is embodied in the inclosure.

You are instructed to ask that proper measures may be taken by the government of North Germany for the protection of American property in Paris, in the event of the occupation of that city by the German forces.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

J. C. B. DAVIS.

[This inclosure is embodied in Mr. Davis’s instructions to Mr. Washburne, No. 158, dated August 30, 1870. See, ante, “France.”]