Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume V

No. 11.

[Extract.]

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

No. 377.]

American Legation, Berlin, June 24, 1872. (Received July 13.)

Sir: * * * * * * *

I transmit a translation of the acknowledgment that the definitive statements of both parties are already in the hands of the Imperial Arbitrator.Receipts of definitive statements by the Imperial Arbitrator acknowledged.

I remain, &c.,

GEO. BANCROFT.

[Inclosure.]

Mr. Von Thile to Mr. Bancroft.

[Translation.]

Berlin, June 18, 1872.

The undersigned has the honor most respectfully to acknowledge the receipt from Mr. Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of the obliging note of the 11th instant respecting the boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain, together with the accompanying reply. The undersigned has not failed to lay before His Majesty the Emperor and King this reply, as well as that delivered on the 10th of this month by the Embassador of Great Britain at this Court.

At the same time the undersigned, &c.

VON THILE.