Letter
[Untitled], this [l. s.] ninth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four
[Untitled]
To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting :
I, John Young, consul of the United States of America, for the port of Belfast, (Ireland,) and its dependencies, do certify and make known, to whom these presents shall come, that John Lytle is mayor of Belfast, and that his signature to the annexed document is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of this consulate, at Belfast, this [l. s.] ninth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN YOUNG, United States Consul.
We, the undersigned, residents of Belfast, county of Antrim, Ireland, being duly sworn, declare and say that we are acquainted with James McHugh; that he was born in county of Tyrone, Ireland, about or in the year 1838; that he went to the United States of America on Wednesday, the 4th day of December, 1863, and that we know him to be a British subject.
HUGH C. CLARKE.
JAMES KAVANAUGH.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, the mayor of Belfast, by H. C. Clarke and James Kavanaugh, who are credible witnesses, on this 9th day of January, 1864, the figures 1863 and also 1864 being just inserted.
JOHN LYTLE. Mayor of Belfast.
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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.