File No. 718.1915/223.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister of Costa Rica.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of November 7, in which, in compliance with special instructions from your Government, you express its gratitude for the mediation of the Chief Justice of the United States, a copy of whose award you enclose, in the boundary dispute between Costa Rica and Panama.

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In reply I beg to assure you of the profound gratification with which the Department has learned of your Government’s satisfaction with the results of the friendly good offices which it afforded pleasure to the Government of the United States to extend to the Governments of Costa Rica and Panama in this matter.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing
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