Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

The Secretary of State to the Chief Justice.

Department of State,
Washington, June 13, 1911.

Sir: At the request of Señor Don Joaquín Bernardo Calvo, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Costa Rica, and of Dr. Belisario Porras, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Panama, I have the honor to transmit to you herewith a joint note¹ addressed to you in which they request you to accept the office of arbitrator of the boundary dispute between their respective countries.

I have, etc.,

P. C. Knox.

1. The one next above.