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Hoppin to By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, January 23, 1880
No. 302. Mr. Hoppin to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of the United States, London, January 23, 1880. (Received February 7.)
No. 139.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 89 of the 29th of October last, I have the honor to inclose the copy of a note I received yesterday from Lord Salisbury and of a document accompanying the same in relation to the interference of Her Majesty’s government with Mormon emigration from Great Britain to the United States.
It will be seen from this communication that the home secretary has been advised by the law officers of the Grown that the government here is under no obligation, and, indeed, has no power to prevent such emigration, and that it can do no more than to give notice to the public of the illegal character of Mormon marriages according to the law of the United States.
I have, &c.,
W. J. HOPPIN.
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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.