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last, and also your No. 42, of 3d January last, as communicated to the 

 Senate and pointed, and I cannot doubt that the whole document, as 

 soon as published, will be forwarded at once to this government by 

 some of its agents. Seeing your No. 37 in this form for the first time, 

 I shall regard it of course as authentic, though, in view of my previous 

 advices, I have no doubt that a duplicate has already been sent to me. 

 I trust so, because as printed, it gives no list of its accompanying 

 papers, and for these, so far as they may be contained in the printed 

 document, I am obliged to rely wholly on Mr. Sanford's recollection. 

 He tells me that he feels quite sure that Wheeler's second long depo- 

 sition and McCabe's deposition were accompaniments of your No. 37, 

 though they appear to have been printed as accompaniments of his 

 printed memorial. Be this as it may be, I shall regard and use them 

 as fairly in the case. 



During the past week, since the arrival of your No. 42, I have been 

 pressing the business with all possible activity in the sense of your 

 instruction No. 42, and" expect to receive, without delay, the reply of 

 this government to my note of 20th December last, which I hope 

 reached Washington with my No. 30 to you of 7th January last, in 

 time to go into the Senate with the other papers, if the department 

 shall have deemed that course expedient. 



I write this dispatch in great haste to go forward by a vessel which 

 sails to-day, and shall have the honor to write you further upon the 

 subject by the first opportunity, which will, I anticipate, occur in a few 

 days. 



With the highest respect, I have the honor to be, your obedient 

 servant, 



CHARLES EAMES. 



Hon. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of State. 



[Extract.] 



Mr. Cass to Mr. Fames. 



No. 49.] Department of State, 



Washington, April 1, 1857. 

 gjp^. * * * * if. * if. 



Your dispatches to No. 35, inclusive, have been received. The last, 

 announcing Mr. Sanford's arrival with instruction numbered 42, 

 reached this department on the 20th ultimo. The loss of Mr. Marcy' s 

 No. 37 to you accounts for the delay which has been experienced in the 

 prosecution of the Shelton claim. It is hoped, however, that the du- 

 plicates which were at once forwarded to you, (February' 3,) together 

 with the very minute statement of the items making up that claim, 

 transmitted with another dispatch (No. 46) to you of the same date, 

 will have enabled you before this to make a final and satisfactory adjust- 

 ment of this claim. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, LEWIS CASS. 



Charles Eames, Esq., c&c. 



