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. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Hoar, Attorney-General.

Department of State,
Washington, April 3, 1869.

[738] *Sir: Mr. Evariste La Roche, the chargé d’affaires of Hayti, has addressed a note to this Department, stating that he has information to the effect that a steamer named Florida is in the course of being fitted out at Chester, Pennsylvania, for the service of the insurgents in arms against his government.

I will consequently thank you to instruct the proper officers to prosecute any person who, in the proceeding referred to, may violate the law of the United States.

I have the honor to be, sir, yours, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

Hon. R. Rockwood Hoar,
Attorney-General.