No. 261.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. H. H. Morgan.

No. 672.]

Sir: I herewith transmit, for your information, in connection with recent correspondence with your legation, the inclosed copy of a note* [Page 380] from the minister of Mexico here of the 9th instant, stating that his Government renounces its claim to the ownership of Morteritos island, so called, in the Rio Grande, near Roma, Tex.

In reply to Mr. Romero’s note I have expressed the gratification which this Government felt at this decision, and added that it was only what the President and this Department had good cause to expect from the well-known high sense of justice of the Mexican Government and people.

I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.
  1. For inclosure see document No. 267 post.