Mr. Gresham to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, inclosing a copy of an approved minute of the Canadian privy council on the subject of reciprocal wrecking in the inland waters contiguous to the United States and Canada.

Adding that the contents of your note will be duly communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury for his information, I have, etc.

W. Q. Gresham.