Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume I

No. 228.
Mr. Bartholdi to Mr. Fish.

[Translation.]

Legation of France in the United States,
Washington, January 4, 1875. (Received January 6.)

Mr. Secretary of State: A telegraphic dispatch from Duke Decazes informs me that the expulsion of the French Sisters of Charity in Mexico has been ordered by a decree which obliges them to leave on the 31st of January at the latest. They solicit an extension of the time allowed them, that they may be able to take the transatlantic packet which sails in February.

I am instructed, Mr. Secretary of State, to solicit the good offices of the American Cabinet in order to secure this extension of a few days, to which Duke Decazes hopes the Mexican government will have no objection.

Be pleased to accept, &c.,

A. BARTHOLDI.