Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 153.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Williams.

Department of State,
Washington, October 23, 1874.

No. 191.]

Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 54, in relation to the case of Walter Jackson, who was charged with the crime of piracy and assault with intent to commit murder on board a British vessel on the high seas, I inclose for your information a copy of an instruction^* of this date, addressed by the Department to Mr. George F. Seward, the consul-general of the United States at Shanghai, in reference to this case.

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

1. See instruction No. 424 to consul-general at Shanghai.