Letter

Hamilton Fish to Francis C. Barlow, August 10, 1869

Author

Hamilton Fish

Recipient

Francis C. Barlow

Date

August 10, 1869

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure.]

Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Barlow, United States marshal.

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 you, 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.

[765] In regard to the proposed armament for those*vessels, which you understood to be in process of construction at Cold Spring, you will please confer with the proprietors of those works, and on receiving their assurance that no delivery of such armament will be made without sufficient previous notice to you and this Department, you may say to them that you will not, for the present, further interfere with their carrying out their contract.

I am, sir, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

Francis C. Barlow, Esq., United States Marshal, Southern District of New York.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

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.