No. 231.
Mr. Lowell
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
London, June 6, 1883.
(Received June 19.)
No. 563.]
Sir: Referring to your instruction No. 564, of the
5th day of April, 1883, I have to acquaint you that on the 18th day of April
last, the day of the arrival of the instruction, I addressed a note to Lord
Granville in
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compliance with its
terms, informing him of the action I should take on the 2d of July next in
obedience to a resolution of both houses of Congress of the United States,
in giving notice of the termination of Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and
Article XXX of the treaty of May 8, 1871, between the United States and
Great Britain; and that on the 28th of April last I received a reply from
his lordship, acknowledging the reception of my note.
I beg to inclose herewith a copy of this correspondence.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 563.]
Mr. Lowell to Lord
Granville.
Legation of the United States,
London, April 18,
1883.
My Lord: I have received to-day, from Mr.
Frelinghuysen, a dispatch inclosing the copy of a joint resolution of
both houses of Congress of the United States, providing for the
termination of certain articles of the treaty between the United States
of America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Washington, May 8,
1871, which articles, under the protocol signed June 7, 1873, took
effect on the 1st day of July, 1873, and, by the terms of the original
treaty, are subject to termination by either party on two years’ notice,
given at the expiration of ten years from July 1, 1873. This resolution,
which was approved March 3, 1883, directs the President to give notice
to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty that the provisions of each
and every of the articles numbered 18 to 25, inclusive, and of Article
XXX of the treaty May 8, 1871, will terminate and be of no force on the
expiration of two years next of after the time of giving such notice,
which the President is further directed to give on the 1st day of July,
1883, or as soon thereafter as may be.
I am therefore instructed to comply with the directions of Congress in
this matter, as set forth, in the resolution, by giving the notice
required; and, as the 1st day of July falls on Sunday, I am directed to
give this notice on the next succeeding day. I beg, also, in compliance
with further directions, to inform your lordship of the purport of this
instruction, and of my contemplated action under it.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No. 563.]
Lord Granville to
Mr. Lowell.
Foreign
Office, April 27,
1883.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note of the 18th instant, in which you acquaint me that,
in compliance with the instructions you have received from your
Government, you propose to give notice on Monday, the 2d of July (the
1st July falling on a Sunday), of the intention of the United States to
terminate Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX of the
treaty of the 8th of May, 1871, between Great Britain and the United
States, which will cease to be in force on the expiration of two years
from the date of such notice being given.
I have, &c.,
