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

Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney.

Attorney-General’s Office,
January 19, 1856.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 16th instant, in relation to the retention of the revenue-cutter Washington at the port of New York, and have submitted the same to the Secretary of the Treasury. I am informed by him that he has countermanded the orders requiring the Washington to leave New York on a cruise, and directed her to remain there.

I am, very respectfully,

• C. CUSHING.
• John McKeon,
  United States District Attorney.