Letter
CHARLES TUPPER, Provincial Secretary to Commander Clarey, U. S. N, December 18, 1863
[Enclosure 16 in No. 5.]
Mr. Tupper to Commander Clarey, U. S. N.
Provincial Secretary’s Office, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 18, 1863.
Sir: I have it in command from his honor, the administrator of the government, to inform you that information having been received that prisoners have been made of individuals in the harbor of Sambro, a Nova Scotian port, by men-of-war under your command, his honor cannot permit any vessel in the service of the United States government to leave this port until due investigation has been made into these allegations of the violation of international law.
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.