Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 363.
Mr. Seward to Mr. Hoppin.

Department of State,
Washington, August 28, 1879.

No. 361.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Welsh’s No. 347 of the 13th instant, and to approve the prompt presentation of the claims of the United States fishermen at Fortune Bay, which formed the subject of Mr. Evarts’ No. 347 of the 1st instant.

The additional copies of certain papers connected with the cases, which he thinks it desirable to have transmitted, will be sent as soon as practicable.

I am, &c.,

F. W. SEWARD,
Acting Secretary.