Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 140.

Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft.

No. 226.]

Department of State, Washington, August 25, 1870.

Sir: I inclose herewith, for your information, a copy of a dispatch of the 11th instant, No. 251, and of its accompaniments, from Mr. Washburne, relative to a certificate of protection desired by German residents in France.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

J. C. B. DAVIS.

[For this inclosure see, ante, “France,” Mr. Washburne’s dispatch No. 251, dated August 11, 1870.]