No. 5.
Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft.
Sir: With reference to your dispatch of the 1st instant, No. 255, and to the note of Mr. Von Thile, a copy of which accompanied it, announcing the consent of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia to act as the arbitrator between this Government and that of Great Britain, in determining [Page 259] the controversy respecting the boundary between the two countries, in the manner provided in the thirty-fourth article of the Treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871, the President desires that you will convey to the Secretary of State for the German Empire, with a request that they may be communicated to His Majesty, his grateful acknowledgments for the promptness with which His Majesty has been graciously pleased to accede to the wishes of the two Governments.The President expresses his grateful acknowledgments for the action of the Emperor.
I am, &c.,