GOOLD, Assistant Surveyor to [The other enclosures, with Mr. Adams’s No. 616, being correspondence respecting the Alabama and the iron-clad vessels at Birkenhead, the material portions thereof having been published in the United States diplomatic correspondence for 1863, are omitted.], February 26, 1864
Mr. Goold to Mr. Edwards.
Sir: I beg to state that I remember being asked by you, in the presence of Mr. Hall, attorney, who had called to make inquiries respecting the shipment of two guns on board the vessel Gibraltar, whether arms were shipped to New York, to which I replied that they were.
An account of the number and value of rifles exported to ports in the United States of America during the year 1862, and openly cleared as arms, was forwarded to the board on the 16th February, 1863.
I beg to add that arms and other munitions of war are still being shipped to the United States.
[The other enclosures, with Mr. Adams’s No. 616, being correspondence respecting the Alabama and the iron-clad vessels at Birkenhead, the material portions thereof having been published in the United States diplomatic correspondence for 1863, are omitted.]