Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 349.
Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Evarts.

Washington, January 12, 1881. (Received January 12.)

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, inclosing copy of a letter addressed by the Treasury Department to the collector of customs at Suspension Bridge, concerning the transportation of merchandise in bond, from one port to another in Canada, by way of Suspension Bridge and Ogdensburg, N. Y., and to inform you that I am this day forwarding a copy of it to the governor general of Canada, for communication to the customs department of the Dominion.

I have, &c.,

EDW’D THORNTON.