No. 70.
Mr. Evarts
to Mr. Hilliard.
Department
of State,
Washington, November 15,
1880.
No. 123.]
Sir: Referring to your No. 185, I inclose herein a
letter from the President to His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, in which is
expressed the appreciation entertained by this government of His Majesty’s
courtesy in the appointment made by him of the third commissioner provided
for in the American-French claims convention of January 15 last; also a copy
of the same.
You will please transmit the copy to the office of the minister of state, and
present the original in a manner most agreeable to His Majesty.
I am, sir, &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 123.]
President Hayes to
the Emperor of Brazil.
Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, to His Majesty Dom
Pedro I, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil:
Great and Good Friend: I have received
intelligence from the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States in Brazil of the nomination by your Imperial
Majesty of the Councillor, Baron de Arinos, the envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of Your Majesty at Brussels, as the third
commissioner, provided for by the text of the convention concerning
claims, entered into on the 15th of January last between the United
States and France.
The Government of the United States fully appreciates the courtesy of
Your Majesty in acceding to the invitation respecting this appointment,
and will be peculiarly gratified to welcome to the scene of his labors a
gentleman already distinguished by the regard of Your Majesty.
May God have Your Majesty in His wise keeping.
Written at Washington
the 9th day of
November, in the year 1880, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and fifth.
Your good friend,
R. B. HAYES.
By the President:
Wm. M.
Evarts,
Secretary of State.
