Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Pierrepont, district attorney, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.

Office of the Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of New York,
41 Chambers street, December 10, 1869.

Sir: By order of the court, this day made, the Spanish Cuban gunboats are released. I have directed the marshal to keep them no longer in custody; he will surrender them forthwith.

Yours, very respectfully,

EDWARDS PIERREPONT,
United States Attorney.

Hon. Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.