Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

Governor Sir W. MacGregor to the Earl of Elgin.

[Telegram.]

[undated] (Received August 14, 1906.)

No. 8.]

Will transmit full reply to your telegram of the 8th August without unnecessary delay. Meantime my responsible advisers rely on assurance contained in dispatch of the 26th March, 1857,^a that His Majesty’s Government regard the consent of the community of Newfoundland as the essential preliminary to any modification of their territorial or maritime rights, and they assume that His Majesty’s Government will not submit any proposals that would be at variance with that engagement to the United States Government.

1. For text of this dispatch see p. 11 of C. 6365, “Newfoundland. Correspondence with the Newfoundland delegates respecting the proposed imperial legislation for carrying out the treaties with France.”