No. 326.
Mr. Fish
to Sir Edward Thornton.
Washington, May 27, 1874.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 26th instant, relating to the act of the legislature of Newfoundland, passed by that body on the 28th of March last, for the purpose of extending the provisions of articles XVIII to XXV inclusive, of the treaty of Washington, to that colony, which act received the assent of the Queen on the 12th instant, and informing the Department that you are in receipt of a message from his excellency the governor of Newfoundland, stating that he will issue his proclamation on Saturday next to carry into effect the provisions of the articles above referred to of the said treaty on Monday, the 1st of June next, and that this proclamation will be similar to the printed copy which you furnished me on the 23d instant, modified so as to bring it into conformity with the act of the legislature of Newfoundland, of the 28th of March, 1874, with the further verbal change indicated by this Department substituting the word “citizens” for “subjects,” where the latter term is used in reference to citizens of the United States.
You also inform me of your readiness to call at this Department on any day which I may think proper to name for the purpose of signing [Page 560] with me the protocol transmitted with my note of the 25th instant.
In reply I have the honor to state that I shall be happy to have you call at this Department to-morrow, the 28th instant, for the purpose above indicated, and at the same time I will thank you to bring with you the protocol above referred to.
I have, &c.,