Letter
To the diplomatic and consular officers of the United States in foreign countries., August 8, 1862.
[Circular—No. 18.]
To the diplomatic and consular officers of the United States in foreign countries.
Department of State, Washington, August 8, 1862.
It is expected that, until further notice, you will not issue a passport to any citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, and otherwise liable to the performance of military duty, who you may have reason to suppose shall have left the United States subsequently to this date.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh
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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 Third Session Thirty-seventh.