No. 106.
Earl Granville to Lord Tenterden.
[From British Blue Book “North America,” No. 10, (1872,) p. 2.]
My Lord: Should the Arbitrators inquire for how long a period the adjournment requested in the note which you are instructed in my other dispatch of this day’s date to present to them, is desired, you should state that Her Majesty’s Government understand that in order to afford time for the consideration of a supplementary convention by the Senate in the session commencing in December, it would be requisite that the adjournment should be for a period of eight months, with power for the Arbitrators to meet at any earlier date, upon being convened for that purpose by the secretary, on the joint request in writing of the Agents of the two Governments.
I am, &c.,