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 Mr. Calvo.

Department of State,
Washington, May 5, 1896.

No. 12.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 1st instant, with which you inclose copy of the convention between Costa Rica and Nicaragua for the demarcation of the boundary between the two countries, one of the articles of which provides for the appointment by the President of the United States of an engineer to decide any point of disagreement between their respective commissioners.

The President will be happy to appoint an engineer in accordance with the above-referred-to provision upon the receipt of the joint request of the two Governments.

Accept, etc.,

Richard Olney.