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, December 12, 1856.

Mr. McKeon, United, States District Attorney, New York:

Complaints have been made to the President of enlistments and expeditions at New York for military service in Nicaragua, in violation of law, and you will arrest and prosecute all such enlistments and expeditions. Pull instructions by mail.

C. CUSHING.

[Similar dispatches were sent to district attorneys at New Orleans and other cities.]