File No. 718.1915/189.
Mr. Secretary: Referring to our interview of
Thursday the 8th instant in regard to the arbitration of the boundary
question between Costa Rica and Panama, of which your excellency is well
informed, we have the honor to confirm our request to place in the hands
of the honorable the Chief Justice of the United States of America the
inclosed note requesting his honor to accept the office of arbitrator
upon said boundary question.
[Inclosure.]
The Ministers on Special
Mission to the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court.
To the honorable the Chief Justice
of the United States of America:
The undersigned, Joaquin Bernardo Calvo, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Costa Rica, and
Belisario Porras, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the Republic of Panamá, have the, privilege to submit to your
honor an authentic copy of the convention entered into between the
two aforesaid Republics under date of the 17th of March, 1910,
whereby your honor was nominated arbitrator to decide, in conformity
with the terms of said convention, upon their boundary questions.
This convention was duly approved by the respective Legislatures of
the Republics of Costa Rica and Panama last year, and the
ratifications were exchanged at the city of Washington on the 17th
of last May.
As your honor will observe in Article IV, the representatives of both
Governments concerned, or only one of either of them, should, 30
days after the ratifications of the said convention have been
exchanged, address your honor, requesting the acceptance of the
office of arbitrator assigned to your honor by Article I of the same
convention.
Therefore, the requisite formalities having taken place, we
respectfully beg leave to request your honor to kindly accept the
office referred to and advise us of your acceptance.
We are deeply interested to put an end to this boundary question,
which is the only one that divides our sister Republics, and we feel
fully confident of your honor’s wisdom and sound judgment.
- J. B. Calvo.
- Belisario Porras.
Washington, D. C., June 10, 1911.
