Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 336.
Mr. Watson to Mr. Fish.

Newport, R. I., July 30, 1874. (Received August 3.)

Sir: In reply to your letter of the 27th instant, which I received last evening, I have the honor to inform you that I telegraphed to you this morning as follows, “The boundary-line between Labrador is a line drawn due north and south from the Bay or Harbor of Ance Sablon, inclusive, as far as fifty-second degree of north latitude. (See Imperial Statutes 6, George IV, cap. 59.) Labrador is under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland.”

I informed you at the same time that I should communicate to you the dispatch on the subject which I expect from Lord Dufferin, so soon as I receive it.

I regret much if you have been put to any inconvenience by the delay in replying to your note to Sir Edward Thornton, of the 19th of June last.

I have, &c.,

R. G. WATSON.