Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 177.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Phelps.

Department of State,
Washington, October 20, 1886.

No. 434.]

Sir: I inclose herewith for your information a copy of my note of the 19th instant, to Sir Lionel West, concerning the seizure of the American fishing vessel Everett Steele, of Gloucester, Mass., by the Canadian cutter Terror, on the 10th of September, 1886, in the harbor of Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

I am, &c.,

T. F. BAYARD.

[Inclosure.]

[October 19, 1886]

Mr. Bayard to Sir Lionel West, October 19, 1886. For inclosure see No. 225, p. 419.