Mr. Wharton to Mr. Douglass .

No. 116.]

Sir: The Department is gratified to receive your No. 157, of the 27th ultimo, inclosing copies of correspondence, from which it appears that the Haitian Government promises to make an executive measure the proposed law repealing the existing law by which sailing vessels are detained in the ports of Haiti until the duties on their inward cargoes are paid.

I am, etc.,

William F. Wharton,
Acting Secretary.