Letter

resolution., January 31, 1882

Author

McPHERSON, clerk

Date

January 31, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure in No. 23.]

resolution.

January 31, 1882.

Forty-seventh Congress, First Session.

Congress of the United States. In the House of Representatives,

Resolved, That the President be 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 thus 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:

EDW. McPHERSON, clerk.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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.