Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 115.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Osborn.

Department of State,
Washington, April 13, 1880.

No. 87.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 132, in which you inclose a copy of a note from the Chilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, soliciting the friendly offices of the legations of the United States at La Paz and Santiago, in securing an exchange of prisoners of war between Chili and Bolivia, and to say in reply that Mr. Adams, who succeeds Mr. Pettis in the mission to Bolivia, presently departs for his post at La Paz and will be instructed in the direction desired. The person in charge of the archives of the legation at La Paz is not authorized to act in a diplomatic sense.

I am, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.