Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1882

No. 290.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Hamlin .

Department of State,
Washington , July 31, 1882.

No. 85.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 62, of the 10th instant, relating to the duty imposed upon live fish imported in foreign bottoms into the Island of Cuba, and inclosing copies of the correspondence had by you with the Spanish minister of state on the subject, which resulted in a reference of the matter to the governor-general of Cuba for his report thereon.

In reply I have to say that your action in the premises is approved, and that further information is awaited with interest.

I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.