Letter
Hamilton Fish to Edwards Pierrepont, August 10, 1869
[Inclosure.]
Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Pierrepont, district attorney.
[764] *Department of State, Washington, August 10, 1869.
Sir: I have to acquaint you that the President has decided to place the custody of the gun-boats, seized and held by Marshal Barlow, hereafter with the Navy Department. You will, therefore, so far as you have control over them, deliver the custody of them to such officers of the Navy as shall be authorized to receive them.
I am, sir, &c.,
HAMILTON FISH.
Edwards Pierrepont, Esq., United States District Attorney, New York.
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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 Pr.