Letter

Dufferin to Sir Edward Thornton, March 2, 1878

[Inclosure.]

Lord Dufferin to Sir Edward Thornton.

No. 14.]

Sir: With reference to your dispatch, No. 11, of the 21st ultimo, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a minute of the privy council of Canada, expressing the assent of my government to the understanding that the provisional arrangement in regard to the Alaska boundary shall not be held to affect the treaty rights of either party.

I have, &c.,

DUFFERIN.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P 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 P.