Minister Swenson to the Secretary of State

No. 220

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 128, of the 10th ultimo, transmitting copy of a new draft of treaty for the proposed cession of the Danish West Indies to the United States, embodying the accepted suggestions made in the note from the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, of June 29, last, a copy of which was communicated to the Department in my No. 212, dated Norseland, Minnesota, August 8, 1901.

A copy of the amended project has been handed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

I have [etc.]

Laurits S. Swenson