Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1878

No. 16.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Garcia.

Department of State,
Washington, March 30, 1878.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th instant, together with a memorandum and documentary evidence relating to the claim of your government to the territory comprised between the Verde, Paraguay, and Pilcomayo Rivers, and to say in reply, that the question of the validity of the claim thus made will receive the careful examination which it merits.

I avail, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.