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. 37.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Heap.

Department of State,
Washington, March 12, 1875.

No. 99.]

Sir: With reference to your dispatches Nos. 173 and 182, of the 14th of April and 21st of July last, respectively, in regard to the offer by the, Bey of the consular residence occupied by you as a gift to the United States, an attested copy of an act of Congress, approved the 3d instant, authorizing the President to accept the gift, is herewith inclosed.^*

You will notify the Tunisian minister for foreign affairs accordingly, and will see that, if that government should still be disposed to transfer to the United States its title to the property, this be done pursuant to the usual forms. When received, in accordance with a clause in the act of Congress referred to, the deed is to be forwarded to be lodged in this Department.

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

1. See United States Statutes at Large, vol. 18, part iii, p. 513.