File No. 763.72112/2445
The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury (McAdoo)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Department’s letter of the 17th instant, in which you ask to be informed whether the Treasury Department should approve or disapprove the action already taken by the collector of customs at Norfolk and proposed by the collector of customs at Boston to bring to the attention of shipmasters in the United States the recent British orders to men-of-war as to the exercise of the right of visit and search.1
In reply I have the honor to say that the Department’s opinion is that the action of the collectors should be disapproved.
I have [etc.]
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