No. 314.

Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Lowell.

No. 1058.]

Sir: With reference to your dispatch No. 917, of the 22d ultimo, in relation to Mormon recruits from India, I have to inform you that Lord Granville’s suggestion as to instructing the American consuls in India to co-operate with the British authorities there has been adopted by this Department and that suitable instructions have been given to the consul-general at Calcutta, and to our consuls at Bombay and Singapore, on the subject.

I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.