Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 455.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Pendleton.

Department of State,
Washington, April 6, 1888.

No. 303.]

Sir: Your dispatch No. 585, of the 22d of February last, reporting your action in declining to issue a passport to Mr. Frank Kessel, upon the ground of a discrepancy between his certificate of naturalization and his passport, was duly received.

A copy of your dispatch was communicated to the probate judge of Montgomery County, who has furnished a corrected certificate, with the statement that the clerical error in the paper furnished to Mr. Kessel was caused by the accidental use of a wrong form of certificate.

Inclosing the amended certificate of naturalization for the files of your legation,

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.