Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 203.
Mr. Hardinge to Mr. Bayard.

British Legation,
Washington , July 17, 1886. [Received July 19.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, protesting against the action of Captain Kent, of the Dominion cruiser General Middleton, in expelling Stephen R. Balkam from the harbor of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, and in refusing to permit him to purchase fish, caught and sold by Canadians, for the purpose of canning as sardines.

I have, &c.,

CHARLES HARDINGE.