Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Hay.

British Embassy,
Washington, March 22, 1899.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 1381, of March 20, 1899, containing proposals for establishing a provisional boundary line between Canada and the Territory of Alaska in the region about the head of Lynn Canal without prejudice to the claims of either party in the permanent adjustment of the frontier.

I lost no time in communicating a copy of this note to Her Majesty’s Government and to the Governor-General of Canada.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.