Office of the Historian

File No. 17753/4.

Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
Petropolis, December 18, 1909.
No. 460.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the department’s Serial No. 169 of the 4th ultimo (file No. 17753/3) and to inclose herewith a copy of a note1 which, pursuant thereto, I have addressed to the Brazilian foreign office, bringing to its attention, with a view to preventing the claim of a precedent, the circumstances attending the arrest and removal from the American sailing ship, Margaret Thomas, on December 25, 1908, of two members of the crew by Brazilian police at the instance of a customs officer in the course of his attempt to thwart the proper exercise of ship discipline by the captain.

I have, etc.,

Irving B. Dudley.
  1. Not printed, as note is same as instruction under acknowledgment.↩