Letter

PRICE EDWARDS, Collector to Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, October 27, 1864

S. Price Edwards, esq., collector of customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.

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.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗
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.