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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, February 11, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that it is considered desirable that the labors of the fishery commission, organized under the 1st article of the treaty of the 5th of June, 1854, be brought to a close at as early a season as may be convenient.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.