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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 533.]

Department of State, Washington, April 21, 1864.

Sir: I thank you for your interesting despatch of the 4th of April, No. 446. The time which was limited for the execution of the convention for removing the French government tobacco will expire on the 23d. I give you a copy of a correspondence^* that has arisen with regard to an extension of the time.

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This suspension is made for that reason, and for that only.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton Esq.

1. [See correspondence with the French legation.]