Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Olney to Lord Gough.

Department of State,
Washington , October 7, 1896 .

No. 504.]

My Lord: I have the honor to state for the formal notification of the British Government that the President has appointed the Hon. William L. Putnam, of Portland, Me., commissioner on the part of the United States under the convention for the settlement of the Bering Sea claims, concluded at Washington, D. C., between the Governments of the United States and of Her Britannic Majesty on February 8, 1896.

Mr. Putnam is circuit judge of the first judicial circuit of the United States.

I have, etc.,

Richard Olney.