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

No. 212.
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard.

Washington, August 18, 1886. [Received August 19.]

Sir: With reference to your note of the 2d ultimo reporting to me the detention of the American schooner City Point, of Portland, Me., by the Canadian authorities at the port of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and protesting against their action in so doing, I have the honor to inform you, in accordance with instructions which I have received from Her Majesty’s Government, that the master of the schooner City Point committed a breach of the customs laws of the Dominion by not reporting to customs and landing part of the crew and luggage. The vessel in question was subsequently released on deposit of $400.

I have, &c.,

L. S. SACKVILLE WEST.