Letter
Hamilton Fish to Señor Don M. Lopez Roberts, May 20, 1869
Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Roberts, Spanish minister.
Department of State, Washington, May 20, 1869.
[60] Sir: In a letter to this Department of the 18th instant, with particular reference to the cases of *the steamers Memphis and Santiago de Cuba, the Attorney-General recommends that you, or any other person in your behalf, communicate, to the attorney of the United States for the proper district, proof of a violation of the law. If such proof be so furnished, judicial proceedings will at once be set on foot for the purpose of preventing or punishing such violation.
I am, sir, with, &c.,
HAMILTON FISH.
Señor Don M. Lopez Roberts, &c., &c.
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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.