Letter

DAVIS, Acting Secretary to Francis C. Barlow, August 13, 1869

[767] *Mr. Davis, Acting Secretary of State, to Mr. Barlow, United States marshal.

Sir: I give you herewith, for your information, a transcript of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, of the 11th instant, relative to the transfer of the Spanish gun-boats which were recently seized by order of the President, to the custody of the commandant of the navy-yard at New York.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

J. C. B. DAVIS,
Acting Secretary.

Francis C. Barlow, Esq., United States Marshal, New York.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr 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 Pr.