Letter
Alexander Hamilton to Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead, September 9, 1863
Her Majesty’s Treasury to Laird Brothers.
Treasury Chambers, September 9, 1863.
Gentlemen: I am desired by my lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to acquaint you that their lordships have felt it their duty to issue orders to the commissioners of customs that the two iron-clad steamers now in the course of completion in your dock at Birkenhead are not to be permitted to leave the Mersey until satisfactory evidence can be given of their destination, or at least until the inquiries which are now being prosecuted with a view to obtain such evidence shall have been brought to a conclusion. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
GEO. A. HAMILTON.
Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead.
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13,1329/9.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.