Office of the Historian

No. 633.
Mr. Farman to Mr. Payson.

Consulate-General of the United States in Egypt,
Cairo, November 28, 1879. (Received December 17.)
No. 352.]

Sir: You will remember, when I had the pleasure of seeing you last, that I mentioned that the United States bad no prison in Egypt, and desired to know in what prison any person that should be sentenced by the United States consular court in Egypt to imprisonment for a term of years, could be confined.

Will you please give me instructions in this respect? I should like also to be informed as to whether or not the prison for such purpose has facilities for providing the convicts with labor, so that they can be sentenced to “hard labor” as well as confinement.

I would thank you to send me an answer to this by the first mail.

I have, &c.,

E. E. FARMAN.