Letter

DAVIS, Acting Secretary to George Bancroft, September 28, 1871

Author

DAVIS, Acting Secretary

Recipient

George Bancroft

Date

September 28, 1871

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft.

No. 379.]

Department of State, Washington, September 28, 1871.

Sir: With reference to your dispatch of the 1st instant, No. 255, and to the note of Mr. Von Thile, a copy of which accompanied it, announcing the consent of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia to act as the arbitrator between this Government and that of Great Britain, in determining the controversy respecting the boundary between the two countries, in the manner provided in the thirty-fourth article of the Treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871, the President desires that you will convey to the Secretary of State for the German Empire, with a request that they may be communicated to His Majesty, his grateful acknowledgments for the promptness with which His Majesty has been graciously pleased to accede to the wishes of the two Governments.The President expresses his grateful acknowledgments for the action of the Emperor.

I am, &c.,

J. C. B. DAVIS, Acting Secretary.

Notes

1. No. 5.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.