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

No. 40.

Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne.

No. 192.]

Department of State, Washington , October 21, 1870.

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch on the 21st ultimo, No. 295, inclosing a copy of correspondence respecting the protection of naturalized citizens of the United States, of German birth, and in reply to inform you that the position taken by you upon that subject is approved.

HAMILTON FISH.