Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

[223] *Mr. Gushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney.

Attorney-General’s Office,
September 10, 1855.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a dispatch from the British minister to the Secretary of State, and of letters annexed, alleging that troops have been recruited in New York by the Accessory Transit Company for service in the state of Nicaragua, and to request you to investigate the fact, and if, on such investigation, it shall appear that any such recruitments have been made in violation of law, then to institute criminal proceedings against the parties concerned.

I am, yours, &c., &c.,

C. CUSHING.

Hon. John McKeon,
Attorney United States, New York.