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House resolution of January 31, 1882.
[Inclosure in No. 317.]
House resolution of January 31, 1882.
Congress of the United States, in the House of Representatives,
January 31, 1882.
January 31, 1882.
Forty-seventh. Congress, First Session.
Resolved, That the President he requested to obtain a list of all American citizens, naturalized or native-born, under arrest or imprisonment by authority of the British Government, with a statement of the cause or causes of such arrest and imprisonment, and especially such of said citizens as may have been arrested and imprisoned under the suspension of the habeas corpus in Ireland, and, if not incompatible with the public interest, that he communicate such information, when received, to this House, together with all correspondence now on file in the Department of State relating to any existing arrest and imprisonment of citizens as aforesaid.
Attest:
Edward McPHERSON,
Clerk.
Clerk.
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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.