Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress

[Extract.]

Mr. Johnson to Mr. Seward.

No. 48.]

Legation of the United States, London, November 10, 1868.

Sir: * * * * * *

The amendment you suggested in the San Juan protocol has been made by a supplementary protocol, the original of which accompanies this dispatch. I am glad to say that Lord Stanley willingly and at once assented to your suggestion.

I have the honor to remain, with high regard, your obedient servant,

REVERDY JOHNSON.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

PROTOCOL.

The undersigned, Reverdy Johnson, esq., envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, and Edward Henry, Lord Stanley, her Britannic Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, being respectively authorized and empowered by their governments, hereby declare that the said governments agree to refer the disputed question of boundary, which forms the subject of the protocol signed by them on the 17th of October last, to the decision of the President of the federal council of the Swiss confederation.

Done at London the 10th of November, 1868.

REVERDY JOHNSON.

STANLEY.