Letter
Daniel E. Sickles to Capt. C. H. Wells, commanding Shenandoah, July 22, 1873
[Inclosure C.]
General Sickles to Capt. C. H. Wells, commanding Shenandoah.
Legation of the United States, Madrid, July 22, 1873.
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for your information, a copy and translation of a decree of the government of Spain, dated 20th instant, and published yesterday in the Official Gazette, denouncing as pirates the officers and crews of certain Spanish vessels therein described, and inviting their capture as lawful prize by the armed ships of other powers.
This decree of the executive was yesterday approved by the legislative authority.
You are therefore authorized by public law, and by the express consent of the government to which these piratical cruisers belong, to capture any one or more of them that you may encounter, and take them into port for condemnation.
I am, &c.,
D. E. SICKLES.
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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.