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Title: Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 5 April 1871
Date: April 5, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.02995
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April 5, 1871.
Hon. Hamilton Fish
Secretary of State.
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, enclosing a translation of a note to you of the 1st instant, from Mr. Stenersen, Minister Resident of Sweden and Norway, in regard to the detention of the Norwegian bark "Memento" at New Orleans.
I herewith transmit to you a copy of the instructions from this Department to the District Attorney for Louisiana.
Very respectfully, your obd't serv't,
A. T. Akerman,
Attorney General.
case of Norwegian bark "Memento" at New Orleans.
see Ins B'k B. p 373-4