Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Burnley.

Department of State, Washington, September 27, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d instant, transmitting copies of a notification issued by her Majesty’s government prohibiting any ship-of-war belonging to either of the belligerent powers in North America being dismantled or sold in any of her Maiesty’s ports, and to inform you, in reply, that a copy of the notification has been communicated to the Secretary of the Navy.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c, &c.