Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part II

Mr. Gresham to Baron Gresham.

Department of State,
Washington, April 24, 1895.

No. 52.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of February 26 last, stating that the cost of the surveys ordered by the Samoan land commission aggregates perhaps $1,500 or $2,000, and asking whether the Government of the United States is willing to pay its pro rata share.

In reply I have to inform you that this Government will bear its one-third share of the expenses indicated, and that I have so advised the British ambassador in reply to his recent note upon the subject.

Accept, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.