Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Molina.

Department of State, Washington, November 26, 1866.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the War Department having occasion to send recruits for the military force on the Pacific, has preferred the route through Nicaragua for that purpose. The number of the recuits will not, it is understood, exceed three hundred and fifty men.

This notice is given to you in order that there may be no misunderstanding upon the subject by the authorities of Nicaragua.

I avail myself of this occasion to offer to you a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Señor Don Luis Molina.