Letter
CHARLES TUPPER, Provincial Secretary to Commander Clarey, December 18, 1863
[Enclosure 10 in No. 5.]
Mr. Tupper to Commander Clarey.
Provincial Secretary’s Office, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 18, 1863.
Sir: I am commanded by his honor the administrator of the government to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, explaining the object of your visit to be for the purpose of delivering the steamer Chesapeake into the hands of the British authorities, or to take her to the United States and deliver her to the United States government, or to the owners, upon the faith, if any difficulty should arise, to make restitution to the British authorities; and in reply I have it in command to inform you that his honor is prepared to take legal charge of the steamship Chesapeake, but cannot consent to her removal from this port until further investigation by properly constituted authorities.
I have, &c.,
CHARLES TUPPER, Provincial Secretary.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.