ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WASHINGTON, _June 18, 1864_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In further answer to the Senate's resolution of the 28th ultimo,

requesting to be informed whether the President "has, and when,

authorized a person alleged to have committed a crime against Spain or

any of its dependencies to be delivered up to officers of that

Government, and whether such delivery was had, and, if so, under what

authority of law or of treaty it was done," I transmit a copy of a

dispatch of the 10th instant to the Secretary of State from the acting

consul of the United States at Havana.

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