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. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Hoar, Attorney-General.

Department of State
Washington, May 13, 1869.

[53] Sir: Mr. Roberts, the minister from Spain, has orally *and informally represented to this Department that the steamer Atlanta, at Philadelphia, has been sold to Cubans, and the steamers Memphis and Santiago de Cuba, at New York, and the steamer Florida, at Chester, Pennsylvania, are being fitted out under suspicious circumstances. The last-named vessel, as you are aware, is the one respecting which the diplomatic representative of Hayti has also expressed apprehensions.

The expediency of your instructing the judicial officers in regard to them is submitted to your consideration.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

HAMILTON FISH.

Hon. E. R. HOAR,
Attorney-General.