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. Rush, Acting Secretary of State, to Mr. Wirt, district attorney.

Department of State,
March 28, 1817.

Sir: I have the honor to send you the copy of a letter just written by this Department to the collector of the customs at Norfolk, and to request your advice and assistance in the matters referred to in that letter, should it be necessary, according to the suggestion made by Mr. Mallory, the collector.

• RICHARD RUSH
  Acting Secretary of State.
• William Wirt,
  District Attorney for Virginia.