Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1871

Earl Granville to General Schenck

Foreign Office , August 14, 1871.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, informing me of the appointment of Judge James S. Frazer as a commissioner under Article XII of the treaty of Washington, and I beg leave to thank you for this communication.

I have at the same time the honor to inform you that Mr. Russell Gurney, recorder of London, has been appointed Her Majesty’s commissioner under the same article of the treaty.

I have, &c.,

GRANVILLE.