Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 281.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Pendleton .

Department of State,
Washington , May 21, 1887.

No. 221.]

Sir: It appears from Mr. Everett’s dispatch No. 95, of the 21st of March, 1879 (Foreign Relations for 1879, page 373), that by the law of Wurtemberg, where property is attached to enforce the payment of a line imposed upon a person found guilty of desertion for failing to per-, form military duty, the attachment expires by limitation.

In order that the Department may be enabled to answer inquiries upon the subject I will thank you to famish, if practicable, an abstract of the limitation laws of Germany relating to attachments, fines, arid other penalties for the non-performance of military duty or desertion.

I am, etc.,

T. F. BAYARD.