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

No. 201.
Mr. Hardinge to Mr. Bayard.

British Legation,
Washington, July 12, 1886. [Received July 13.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note to Sir L. West of the 10th instant, protesting against the proceedings of the Canadian authorities at Pictou, Nova Scotia, in denying to the steam-vessel Novelty, of the United States, the right to take in steam-coal, purchase ice, or transship fish in bond to the United States.

I have, &c.,

CHARLES HARDINGE.