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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 493.]

Department of State, Washington, February 27, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 5th instant, No. 416, which gives a statement of your proceedings under instruction No. 455, relative to the pending proposal on our part for a convention for the settlement of claims, and to express my approval thereof.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton Esq., &c., &c., &c.