Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 100.
Mr. Hall to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States in Central America,
Guatemala, July 29, 1887. (Received August 18.)

No. 693.]

Sir: By a telegram dated the 26th instant and received last evening, a translation of which I have the honor to inclose, the President of Nicaragua announces that by a treaty signed at Managua on that day the question of boundaries, so long pending between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, has been amicably settled. This treaty, I infer, obviates the necessity of submitting the question to the arbitration of the President of the United States, as contemplated by the convention sighed in this city on the 16th December, 1886.

It is to be hoped the settlement will prove to be lasting.

I communicated this important news to you today by telegram in cipher.

I have, etc.,

Henry C. Hall.

[Inclosure in No. 693.—Telegram.—Translation.]

President Carazo to Mr. Hall.

Managua, July 26, 1887. (Received July 28.)

I have the pleasure to inform you that in this moment the treaty has been signed by which the question of boundaries, which has long existed between this Republic and Costa Rica, is amicably settled.

Very respectfully,

Evaristo Carazo.