No. 223.
Mr. Bayard to Señor Perez .

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 3d instant, saying that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the treaty of July 26, 1887, for the adjustment of the boundary difficulty between that Government and Costa Rica, and to observe that I thus learn with regret that the expected course of direct settlement of the questions between two countries to which the United States are equally friendly is interrupted.

Accept sir, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.