Letter

By the President: T. F. Bayard to Ricardo Becerra, March 11, 1885

Author

By the President: T. F. Bayard

Recipient

Ricardo Becerra

Date

March 11, 1885

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 177.

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Becerra.

Department of State, Washington, March 11, 1885.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith for your information a copy of a communication of the present date from the Attorney-General, in which he inclosed a copy of a letter of the 10th instant from Mr. Root, the United States district attorney at New York, a copy of which is also inclosed, respecting the detention at that port of the steamship Albano for the purpose of further examination under section 5290 of the Revised Statutes.

The Albano being a vessel of a regular line from New York, the detention for the purposes mentioned will be brief. You are, therefore, requested to furnish this Department, at the earliest possible moment, with such further and more particular information as you may be able to give in relation to the violation of the neutrality act by the steamship in question.

Inclosed herewith you will also find a copy of the section 5290 of the Revised Statutes under which the present detention for examination is justified.

Accept, &c.,

T. F. BAYARD.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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 P.