Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1877

No. 280.
Mr. Seward to Mr. Shishkin.

Department of State,
Washington, June 29, 1877.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 26th instant, in which you inform this Department that your government has ordered that any vessel sailing under a neutral flag shall have the right, during the present war with Turkey, to engage in the coasting trade between its ports on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my very high consideration.

F. W. SEWARD,
Acting Secretary.