CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 354

officers

commissioned by the United States

Government, and the assertion

of

the

Government on the point should for such

a purpose as this be treated as conclusive.

2.

If the "Tartar should have

been treated as a public vessel of

the

United States as we think the should-

she was not bound to comply with the local

law

on A

matter

of this kind affecting

merely the internal economy of the vessel.

3.

We think she should have

been cleared, if any representative of

the United States Government asserted.

her to be a public vessel.

4.

We have nothing.

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to add.

We have the honour to be.

Sir.

Your most obedient,

humble servants,

Thichard Ewehtin

Resent Po

Finlay

Foreign