Letter
TUPPER, Provincial Secretary to commanding officers of United States ship Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 17, 1863
[Enclosure 8 in No. 5.]
Mr. Tupper to commanding officers of United States ship Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Provincial Secretary’s Office, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 17, 1863.
Sir: Three war steamers bearing the flag of the United States having arrived here, and no officer belonging to either of them having reported himself to the administrator of the government or the officer in command of the troops in this garrison, I have it in command from his honor the administrator of the government to inquire the names of the ships under your command, the object of your visit to this port, and the circumstances under which the steamship Chesapeake has been this day taken out of the harbor of Sambro, a Nova Scotian port, and brought into this harbor by men-of-war belonging to the navy of the United States.
I have, &c.,
C. TUPPER, Provincial Secretary.
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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.