Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Olney.
Washington , March 6, 1896 .
Sir: Referring to your note, No. 320, of the 10th ultimo, relative to the demarcation of the principal points of the one hundred and forty-first meridian boundary line between Alaska and Canada, in which you informed me that a measure aiming to facilitate the settlement of the boundary line in question was pending in Congress, I now have the honor to ask, in view of the fact that Congress has appropriated a sum for this purpose, whether your Government would favorably entertain the proposal contained in my note of the 6th ultimo, viz, the recognition of Mr. Ogilvie’s line of demarcation until the commencement of the joint survey.
In the minute inclosed in my above-mentioned dispatch it was pointed out that it would not be possible to communicate with Mr. Ogilvie before the summer, when a considerable portion of the one hundred and forty-first meridian should already be marked on the ground.
I have, etc.,