Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1889

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Romero.

Department of State,
Washington, December 7, 1888.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 6th instant, announcing the appointment of Don Felipe Zavalza and Don Ignacio Garfias as a commission on the part of Mexico to meet and confer with Major Oswald H. Ernst, of the United States Engineer Corps, regarding the projected dam in course of construction on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas.

Accept, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.