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

No. 50.
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West.

Department of State,
Washington, August 13, 1888.

Sir: With further reference to your note of the 6th instant, conveying the request of the Marquis of Salisbury for a postponement of the sale of four British vessels seized in Behring Sea last year, I have now the honor to state that I have just received a letter from the Acting Attorney-General, informing me that, in pursuance of the request so made, he has directed by telegram and letter the postponement of the sale of the vessels in question and has also instructed the United States marshal in charge to receive bonds in lieu of the vessels.

Accept, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.