Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Mr. Seward to Viscount Treilhard.

Department of State, Washington, September 29, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 17th instant, relative to the tax imposed upon certain French subjects at New Orleans, by General Butler, on account of their having subscribed to a loan to the corporation of that city, while it was in the possession of the insurgents, and to state that the propriety of discontinuing the tax has been submitted to the consideration of the Secretary of War.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

The Viscount Treilhard, &c., &c., &c.