DAVIS, Acting Secretary to Packenham, August 19, 1871

Mr. Davis to Mr. Packenham

Sir: I have received your note of the 15th instant, in which you inform me of the appointment of Sir Alexander Cockburn, chief justice of England, as arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty’s government, under Article I of the treaty of Washington, of the 8th of May last.

I avail myself of this occasion to acquaint you of the appointment by the President of Mr. Charles Francis Adams as the arbitrator on the part of the Government of the United States to be named by the President, under Article I of the treaty of Washington, of the 8th of May above referred to, and also of that of Mr. James S. Frazer, late of the supreme court of Indiana, as commissioner on the part of the Government of the United States, under Article XII of the same treaty.

I am, &c.,