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 Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, April 24, 1895.

No. 86.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 20th ultimo, in which you state that Her Majesty’s Government agrees to pay one-third of the expense of the surveys of the Samoan land commission, aggregating, perhaps, $2,000, provided the Government of the United States concurs.

In reply, I have to inform you that this Government will assume one-third of that expense, and that the German ambassador here has been so advised in reply to his note upon the subject.

I have, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.