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. Willey, district attorney, to Mr. Field, Assistant Attorney-General.

[Telegram.]

New London, Connecticut, July 1, 1869.

W. A. Field,
Assistant Attorney-General, Washington:

Your telegram is received. I have telegraphed the marshal at New Haven to proceed at once to Milford, to hold the schooners Fancy and Winona, their arms, ammunition, and men, in custody till further orders. The enlistment of men was in the southern district of New York, and should be presented in that district.

[85] Is it the purpose of the Government to libel *the vessel and cargo as forfeited? If so, instruct me to do so.

HIRAM WILLEY,
United States Attorney.