Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burlingame

No. 216]

Department of State, Washington, September 20, 1867.

Sir: I transmit for your information a copy of a despatch,^* and of its accompaniments, of the 26th of July last, No. 109, from General Dix, our minister at Paris, in relation to the municipal regulations proposed to be adopted by the French consul general at Shanghai. A copy of my reply is also enclosed.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

1. For enclosures see correspondence with United States minister at Paris.