Letter
BOUTWELL, Secretary of the Treasury to Hamilton Fish, May 18, 1869
Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.
Treasury Department, Washington, May 18, 1869.
Sir: Respectfully referring to your communication of the 13th instant, and my reply thereto of the 14th, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a letter from the collector of customs at New York, dated the 15th instant, stating that he had refused a clearance to the steamer Columbia, (Quaker City,) because of suspicious circumstances connected with her.
[57] *I am, very respectully,
GEO. S. BOUTWELL,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.