Letter
PRICE EDWARDS, Collector to Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, October 27, 1864
S. Price Edwards, esq., collector of customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.
Custom-House, Liverpool, October 27, 1864.
Gentlemen: I hereby beg to inform you that your two cupola vessels are now detained, under the 223d section of “the customs consolidated act,” the ground of detention being a violation of “the foreign enlistment act.” And I take leave further to state that the officers in charge have received directions to remove your workman at once from on board the ships.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
S. PRICE EDWARDS, Collector.
Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead.
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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.