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. 70.
Mr. Hall to Mr. Bayard.

United States Legation in Central America,
Guatemala, December 18, 1886. (Received January 4, 1887.)

No. 598.]

Sir: I had the honor to inform you by my dispatch No. 589, of the 3d instant, of the arrival in this city on the 29th ultimo of the commissioners of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, appointed in accordance with the invitation of the Government of Guatemala to agree upon the bases of a settlement of their dispute concerning their boundary, I have now to report that up to this time no progress whatever has been made towards a settlement.

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By the next mail I may be able to communicate more definite information. * * *

I have, etc.,

Henry C. Hall.