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. 36.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Tree.

Department of State,
Washington, April 13, 1887.

No. 81.]

Sir: Your dispatch No. 224, of the 28th ultimo, reporting your course in refusing to grant to Mr. Charles G. Richter a passport upon the ground that he has been absent from this country for sixteen years and has no fixed intentions of returning at anytime in the future, has been received. Your action in the premises is approved by the Department.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.