File No. 23814/11.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.

No. 1261.]

Sir: The department has received your No. 1216 of the 18th instant, in regard to the anticipated emigration to the United States of the British subject Alfred Lumb, a confessed counterfeiter.

The department approves your note to the foreign office on the subject.

I am, etc.,

(For
Mr. Knox
.)
Huntington Wilson.