No. 309.
Mr. West to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Washington, August 8, 1883.
(Received August 10.)
Sir: Referring to your note of the 16th June,
1883,1 have the honor to inclose to you herewith copy of an approved
report of a committee of the privy council of Canada, which I have
received from Lord Lorne, embodying a report of the
superintendent-general of Indian affairs and conveying an expression of
the gratification afforded to the Government of Canada by the good
understanding which exists between the officer of the Canadian northwest
mounted police force at Fort Walsh and the officers commanding the
United States troops on the frontier, resulting in their co-operation
for the suppression of Indian raids from either side of the line.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure.]
Report of a committee of the privy council for
Canada, approved by the Governor-General on the 4th of August, 1883.
The committee of the privy council have had before them a dispatch,
dated 17th June, 1883, from the British minister at Washington,
forwarding correspondence concerning the raids of Canadian Indians
into the northwestern Territories of the United States.
The superintendent-general of Indian affairs, to whom the dispatch
and inclosures were referred, recommends that the Government of the
United States be informed through Her Majesty’s minister at
Washington of the gratification it affords your excellency and your
excellency’s Government to learn of the good understanding that
exists between the Canadian officer of the northwest mounted police
stationed at Fort Walsh, and the officers commanding the United
States troops on the frontier, resulting in their co-operation for
the suppression of Indian raids from either side of the line; and
that it is hoped that their efforts in this direction will be
entirely successful.
The committee concur in the foregoing recommendation, and they submit
the same for your excellency’s approval.
JOHN J. McGEE,
Cleric Privy
Council, Canada.
