Letter
STEWART, Assistant Collector to Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead, October 8, 1863
Assistant collector of her Majesty’s customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.
Custom-House, Liverpool, October 8, 1863.
Gentlemen: Pursuant to the instructions I have received, I beg to transmit you the enclosed letter from the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury, and to inform you that I have been directed to place a customs officer on board the iron-clad vessel, now nearest completion, in the great float, Birkenhead, and that he has directions to seize her in case any attempt be made to remove her from where she is at present.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
W. G. STEWART, Assistant Collector.
Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead.
Notes
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Correspondence between officers of her Majestyu2019s customs and Captain Inglefield, R. N., and Messrs. Laird Brothers, respecting the iron-clad vessels building at 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.