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

Attorney-General’s Office,
Washington , May 18, 1869.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, inclosing a copy of a note of the 15th instant, addressed to your Department by Mr. Evariste La Roche, relative to the recent departure from Boston of an armed vessel ostensibly for Jamaica, but really, as Mr. La Roche charges, for St. Marc, in Hayti.

Instructions appropriate to the case have this day been sent to the United States attorney and marshal for the district of Massachusetts.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. R. HOAR,
Attorney-General.

Hon. Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State.