Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 145.

Mr. Fish to Mr. Bancroft.

No. 244.]

Department of State, Washington, September 23, 1870.

Sir: Your dispatch of the 6th instant, No. 131, has been received, and your proceedings in regard to the transmission of correspondence between Germany and France are approved.

This Government desires the American legations to render all facilities to communications (not military) between the belligerent powers.

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I am, sir, your obedient servant,

HAMILTON FISH.