In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 14th ultimo, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between the Government of the United States and that of China respecting the 'Ward' claims and the claim of Charles E. Hill, I herewith submit a letter from the Secretary of State, together with its accompanying papers.
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I submit the subject to your favorable consideration and recommend that a suitable appropriation be made to enable this Government to accept the foregoing invitation by appointing one or more delegates to attend the congress in question.
It is therefore directed, That the Secretary of War take suitable steps, as far as practicable consistently with vested rights, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage at the camps, forts, and other posts of the Army
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
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