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. Roberts, Spanish minister.

Department of State,
Washington, May 20, 1869.

[60] Sir: In a letter to this Department of the 18th instant, with particular reference to the cases of *the steamers Memphis and Santiago de Cuba, the Attorney-General recommends that you, or any other person in your behalf, communicate, to the attorney of the United States for the proper district, proof of a violation of the law. If such proof be so furnished, judicial proceedings will at once be set on foot for the purpose of preventing or punishing such violation.

I am, sir, with, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

Señor Don M. Lopez Roberts, &c., &c.