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

No. 38.

Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne.

No. 189.]

Department of State, Washington, October 11, 1870.

I inclose for your information and use four printed copies of a proclamation issued by the President, on the 8th instant, in relation to belligerent cruisers of France and North Germany resorting to the waters and ports within the jurisdiction of the United States during the existing war between those powers.

HAMILTON FISH.

[For this inclosure see ante—Proclamations.]