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

No. 232.
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard.

British Legation,
Washington, November 12, 1886. [Received November 12.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, together with certain statements in which complaint is made of the conduct of the collector of customs at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and the conduct of Captain Quigley, of the Canadian cruiser Terror, in their dealings with certain American fishing vessels, and to inform you that I have forwarded the same to Her Majesty’s Government.

I have, &c.,

L. S. SACKVILLE WEST.