In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th instant, requesting information relative to attacks upon United States vessels in the Gulf of Mexico and on the coast of Cuba, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the pans by which it was accompanied.
Message to the House of Representatives on the Attacks on United States Vessels in the Gulf of Mexico
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The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will lapse without the possibility of carrying out the provisions of the convention in this respect.
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