The Chancellor of the Confederation to George Harrington, August 17, 1868

The High Federal Council to Mr. Harrington.

The federal council has hastened to communicate to the government of the canton of the city of Basle the late note which Mr. Minister Resident of the United States of America to the Swiss confederation addressed it on the 27th of July last, concerning the claim of Mr. Charles Berry, a naturalized American citizen, and this communication has elicited from the aforesaid government the reply which the federal council has the honor to transmit herewith in copy to Mr. Harrington, with a number of accompanying documents in support thereof, marked A and B, being annexes which Mr. Minister Resident is requested to return after having taken note of them.

The federal council believes that Mr. Harrington will be ready to concur in thinking that this affair has been sufficiently elucidated, and that there is no occasion to revert to it, Mr. Berry having gone through the formalities prescribed for the emigration of a Swiss citizen as a native of Basle, and having in fact become disconnected from the ties which bound him to his native country.

The federal council embraces this new occasion to renew to Mr. Minister Resident of the United States of America the assurances of its high consideration.

In the name of the federal council, the president of the confederation,