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. Chandler, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to Mr. Seward, Secretary of State.

Treasury Department,
Washington , January 29, 1867.

Sir: I am directed by the Secretary to transmit for your information, a copy of a letter from J. R. Savage, of New York, giving information of the alleged fitting out of a privateer at that port, submitted to this Department, with the accompanying copy of a letter from the Secretary of War. A copy of Mr. Savage’s letter has this day been transmitted to the collector of the customs at New York, with instructions to him to cause an examination as to the correctness of the charge to be made, and to report to this Department the result of such investigation, with his views.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

WM. E. CHANDLER,
Assistant Secretary.

Hon. William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.