Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Thiébaut.

Department of State,
Washington, December 5, 1900.

No. 368.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th ultimo, and to inform you in reply that the minister of the United States at Stockholm was, by instruction No. 96, of October 23, 1900, directed to act in concert with his British and German colleagues in acquainting His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway respecting the inclusion of claims of foreigners (which included citizens of France) not under the jurisdiction of the treaty powers parties to the convention of November 7, 1899, relative to the settlement of certain claims in Samoa by arbitration.

Accept, sir, etc.,

John Hay.