Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 75.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Hall.

Department of State,
Washington, December 6, 1887.

No. 523.]

Sir: I transmit a copy^* of an affidavit by Henry Nelson, master of an American steam-tug, William S. Moore, in which he states that on November 20, 1887, while lying at anchor in the Rama River, Mosquito Reservation, his vessel was forcibly seized by an armed body of Nicaraguan troops or persons wearing uniforms of the Nicaraguan soldiers.

You will present the complaint to the minister for foreign affairs, with a view to an investigation thereof and proper explanation or reparation, as the facts of the case may require.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.

1. See inclosure 2 in document No. 84.