Letter
The most honorable the Marquis of Salisbury to John Welsh, November 21, 1878
[Inclosure 2 in No. 171.]
Lord Salisbury to Mr. Welsh.
Foreign Office, November 21, 1878.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of to-day and of the draft for five millions five hundred thousand dollars ($5,500,000) in gold, which you have delived to me in payment of the award pronounced in favor of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty by the Halifax Fishery Commission on the 23d of November, 1877, in accordance with the provisions of the twenty-second article of the treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America, signed at Washington on the 8th of May, 1871.
I have, &c.,
SALISBURY.
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