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

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

British Embassy,
Newport, R. I., September 7, 1899.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 1552, of the 6th instant, informing me of the acceptance by your Government of the modification proposed by Canada that the high bank of the river Klehini should be taken as the provisional boundary line, and that your Government will at once name commissioners, with those to he appointed by Her Britannic Majesty, to mark the temporary line thus agreed upon by the erection of appropriate monuments.

I have conveyed this gratifying intelligence to the Marquis of Salisbury this day.

I have, etc.,

Reginald Tower.