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. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, to Mr. Rumley, collector.

[Telegram.]

Treasury Department,
Washington, October 5, 1869.

D. Rumley, Collector of Customs, Wilmington, North Carolina:

Your course in the case of the Hornet is approved. Who is retained as counsel? You will hold the Hornet, under the eleventh section of the act of 1818, until directed by the President to release her.

GEO. S. BOUTWELL,
Secretary, &c.