Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, March 29, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 26th instant, informing me that Mr. Home had been instructed to report to her Majesty’s government how soon it would be possible for him and his colleague from the government to close the fishery commission as established by the treaty.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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