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John Welsh to The Officer Ad, December 6, 1878
No. 188. Mr. Welsh to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of the United States, London, December 6, 1878.
No. 183.]
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I am requested by Lord Salisbury to bring to your notice the inclosed circular of Sir M. E. Hicks Beach, Her Majesty’s secretary of state for the colonies, in which it is announced the British Government have decided to make it a rule that in future public officers shall not be allowed to act in a consular capacity for other states.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant,
JOHN WELSH.
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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.