Mr. Davis, Acting Secretary of State, to Mr. Hoar, Attorney General.

Sir: I give you herewith, for your information, a transcript of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, of the 11th instant, relative te the transfer of the Spanish gun-boats which were recently [Page 740] seized by order of the President, to the custody *of the commandant of the navy-yard at New York. [768]

I am, sir, &c.,

J. C. B. DAVIS,
Acting Secretary.

The Hon. E. R. Hoar,
Attorney-General.

[For inclosure see ante, p. 739.]