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Hamilton Fish to Benjamin Moran, November 28, 1876
No. 253. Mr. Fish to Mr. Moran.
Department of State, Washington, November 28, 1876.
No. 62.]
Sir: I inclose a copy of a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, dated the 18th instant, in which he suggests the desirability of the co-operation of the Governments of Portugal and Brazil in the determination, telegraphically from Paris, of the longitudes of both coasts of South America.
You are requested to present the suggestion of the Navy Department to the Government of Portugal, and to inform me of its reply at your early convenience.
An instruction similar to this will be addressed to the minister at Bio de Janeiro.
I am, &c.,
HAMILTON FISH.
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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.