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

[73] *Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Pierrepont, district attorney.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 29, 1869.

Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, United States District Attorney,
No. 41 Chambers street, and at 103 Fifth avenue, New York:

By order of the President, the captured vessels, with the men engaged in the unlawful expedition, will be taken to the navy-yard at Brooklyn, and there put under the charge and control of the officer in command of the yard, who is empowered by the President, by virtue of the power for that purpose in him vested, to employ such part of the naval forces of the United States as are under his command, for the purpose of taking possession of and detaining such ship or vessel for the purposes intended by law.

By order of the President:

HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.