Letter
WOLCOTT, Assistant Secretary of War to William H. Seward, December 12, 1862
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.
Department of State, Washington, December 12, 1862.
Mr. Seward presents his compliments to Lord Lyons, and has the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a letter of this date from the War Department in relation to the British steamer Labuan.
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War Department, Washington, December 12, 1862.
Sir: The Secretary of War has had the honor to receive your note of yesterday, touching the longer detention of the steamer Labuan, and I am instructed to say that the Secretary of the Treasury has been formally advised that this department has now no objection to the immediate clearance and departure of that vessel.
I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
C. P. WOLCOTT, Assistant Secretary of War.
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
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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 First Session Thirty-eighth .