Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 377.
Mr. Bayard to Baron Rosen.

Department of State,
Washington , August 6, 1886.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 20th ultimo, conveying to the Government of the United States the invitation of the Imperial Government to participate in the coming Fourth International Prison Congress, to assemble at St. Petersburg in the year 1890, by appointing thereto one or more delegates.

This kind invitation of your Government is appreciated, and I shall call the attention of Congress to the subject at an early practicable date.

Accept, &c.,

T. F. BAYARD.