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yesterday, furnishing me with a copy of it late last evening. I have at once this morning presented the American reply to the Prince of Bismarck, and have furnished the British Embassador with copies of it.

Admiral Prevost tells me that he intends to remain here until the Imperial Arbitrator shall have rendered his decision.

The mail of to-morrow from Hamburg will take to you a copy of this second British statement, as well as copies of the paper which I have submitted in behalf of the United States.

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Berlin, June 17, 1872. (Received July 3.) SIR: I send you by the Hamburg packet of the 19th instant three bound copies of the English version of our reply to the British argument on the San Juan question; ten copies of the same with maps, Transmits copies of and fifteen without maps; ten copies of the German with the replies and of the maps, and fifteen without maps. A bound copy of the tending their deliv English second and definitive statement is also inclosed in one of the parcels. I annex copies of the correspondence that attended the delivery of the reply.

correspondence at

ery.

I remain, &c.,

GEO. BANCROFT.

[Inclosure No. 1.]

Mr. Odo Russell to Mr. Bancroft.

BRITISH EMBASSY,

Berlin, June 10, 1872.

SIR: The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, has the honor to transmit to Mr. Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Court of Berlin, in pursuance of the provisions of the thirty-sixth Article of the Treaty of Washington, of the 8th of May, 1871, copies, in duplicate, of the second and definitive statement of the British Government in the matter of the line of Boundary between the Territories of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and those of the United States, which the undersigned has this day delivered to His Serene Highness Prince Bismarck to be laid before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany. The undersigned will have the honor of furnishing Mr. Bancroft with additional copies of this statement if he should desire them. The undersigned, &c.,

[Inclosure No. 2.1

ODO RUSSELL.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Odo Russell.

AMERICAN LEGATION,
Berlin, June 11, 1872.

SIR: The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Emperor of Germany, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note of Mr. Odo Russell, British Embassador at Berlin, of last evening, and copies in duplicate of the second and definitive statement of the British Gov

ernment according to the provisions of the Treaty of Washington of the 8th of May,

1871.

Mr. Odo Russell having already delivered this statement to his Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck to be laid before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, the undersigned expresses the hope that this long-continued controversy may be brought very speedily to an end through the friendly intervention of the Imperial Arbitrator.

The undersigned, &c.,

[Inclosure No. 3.1

GEO. BANCROFT.

Mr. Bancroft to the Prince Bismarck.

AMERICAN LEGATION,
Berlin, June 11, 1872.

The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, takes leave in the name of his Government, through His Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, to lay before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany the accompanying definitive reply of the United States to the Case of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty of the 13th of December, 1871.

The undersigned has communicated a copy of this definitive reply to the representative of Her Britannic Majesty at Berlin.

The undersigned has received from the British Embassador at Berlin a copy of the second and definitive statement on behalf of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, together with notice that the same was yesterday submitted through his Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck to His Majesty the Emperor of Germany.

Nothing remains for the undersigned but to express his hope that, now that each party has presented its last word, an early decision may soon remove the cloud of difference that has so long existed on this subject between the Government of the United States and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty.

The undersigned, &c.,

GEO. BANCROFT.

[Inclosure No. 4.1

Mr Bancroft to Mr. Odo Russell.

AMERICAN LEGATION,
Berlin, June 11, 1872.

SIR: The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Emperor of Germany, has the honor to transmit to Mr. Odo Russell, Her Britannic Majesty's Embassador at Berlin, in pursuance of the thirtysixth article of the Treaty of Washington of the 8th of May, 1871, copies in duplicate of the definitive reply of the Government of the United States to the Case of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty of December 13, 1871, which the undersigned has this day delivered to His Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck, to be laid before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany.

The undersigned will have the honor of furnishing Mr. Odo Russell with an additional copy of this statement, together with other copies, if he should desire them, and avails himself of this opportunity to renew, &c.

GEO. BANCROFT.

[Inclosure No. 5.]

Mr. Odo Russell to Mr. Bancroft.

BRITISH EMBASSY,

Berlin, June 11, 1872.

SIR: The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Bancroft's letter of this day's date, informing him that he had submitted to His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, through Prince Bismarck, the second and definitive reply of the Government of the United States on the disputed boundary

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question, and at the same time inclosing copies of it for Mr. Russell's use and informa

tion.

In thanking Mr. Bancroft for this communication, and cordially reciprocating His Excellency's wish expressed in his even-dated note that this long-continued controversy may, through the friendly arbitration of the Emperor, be brought very speedily to a close, the undersigned, &c.

No. 377.

No. 11.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

[Extract.]

ODO RUSSELL.

AMERICAN LEGATION,

SIR:

Berlin, June 24, 1872. (Received July 13.)

Receipts of defin

I transmit a translation of the acknowledgment that the definitive statements of both parties are already in the itive statements by hands of the Imperial Arbitrator.

the Imperial Arbitrator acknowledged.

I remain, &c.,

[Inclosure.]

Mr. Von Thile to Mr. Bancroft.

[Translation.]

GEO. BANCROFT.

BERLIN, June 18, 1872.

The undersigned has the honor most respectfully to acknowledge the receipt from Mr. Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of the obliging note of the 11th instant respecting the boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain, together with the accompanying reply. The undersigned has not failed to lay before His Majesty the Emperor and King this reply, as well as that delivered on the 10th of this month by the Embassador of Great Britain at this Court.

At the same time the undersigned, &c.

No. 12.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

VON THILE.

No. 379.]

AMERICAN LEGATION,

to

ex

amine Haro bound

Berlin, June 28, 1872. (Received July 15.) SIR: I am officially informed that the names of the gentlemen who will be requested to examine and report upon the Haro Appointment of boundary question will be forwarded to the Imperial Arbi- gentlemen trator to-day for his approval. This approval will follow as ary question. a matter of course, and if the gentlemen designated accept the appointment, the consideration of the case will go forward without delay. I am assured that everything which is proper will be done to accelerate a decision.

I remain, &c.,

GEO. BANCROFT.

No. 401.]

No. 13.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

[Extract.]

AMERICAN LEGATION,

Berlin, September 30, 1872. (Received October 16.) SIR: I am assured, on the best authority, that the decision respecting our northwest boundary approaches its solution, and I have proaches its solu heard nothing from any quarter that does not confirm me in the opinion that the decision will be in our favor.

Decision а р

tion.

The writers of telegrams, who run a race with one another, are already making the public familiar with this view of the subject. I shall telegraph the decision to you so soon as it becomes known to me in an authentic form.

On the 3d day of October, Mr. v. Thile, who has had the charge of the Foreign Office in Berlin since I have been here, retires, and his place is to be supplied by Mr. de Balan, now German Minister in Brussels. Mr. de Balan will retain for the present his diplomatic rank and appointments, until the German Diet comes together, when it will be proposed to make the place which he is to fill equal to that of a Minister of State. Mr. v. Thile goes out of office with the unanimous and unqualified esteem of all who have transacted business with him. He is a man of honor, integrity, and thorough and most various culture. I remain, &c.,

No. 410.]

No. 14.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

[Extract.]

GEO. BANCROFT.

AMERICAN LEGATION,

Announcement of

Berlin, October 4, 1872. (Received November 7.) SIR: The papers relating to our Arbitration were completely finished last week and forwarded to the Emperor at Baden for his delayed by final action and signature. Just as they arrived, the death of his youngest brother was announced to him by telegraph, and he hastened to Berlin before declaring his opinion.

award

death of Prince Albrecht.

His deceased brother, Prince Albrecht, more than twelve years younger than himself, was buried on Saturday with the honors paid to a field-marshal, a rank which he had received from the Emperor of Russia only a few hours before he was struck down by apoplexy.

We are daily, I might almost say hourly, expecting to be summoned to receive the award. I have taken measures-I hope they will prove sufficient to give you the decision by telegraph twenty-four hours before it is made known to the telegraphic bureau in this city.

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I remain, &c.,

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GEO. BANCROFT.

No. 15.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

[Telegram.]

BERLIN, October 23, 1872. (Received October 23.)

ted States of Amer

The three Experts to whom the American Memorial on the Canal de Haro and the British Case were referred, have made, each Claim of the Unifor himself, a very elaborate report on the question, sup- a most in accordporting their opinions by reasons stated with technical pre-interpretation of the cision and exactness. The Emperor has also, with the high

Treaty.

true

est sense of official duty, given his personal attention to the subject, and after the most careful study and deliberation, he has arrived at the conclusion satisfactory to his own sense of justice.

The reports of the Experts, with reasons, have not been communicated to us. The decree of the Imperial Arbitrator which has been communicated has the form not so much of a decree in council as of a cabinet order. It does not enter into any elaborate exposition of the decision, but, without diverging in the least from the point presented for arbitration, decrees that the claim of the United States of America is most in accordance with the true interpretation of the Treaty of June 15, 1846. I shall forward the official copy of the decree by a special messenger. BANCROFT.

No. 16.

Mr. Fish to Mr. Bancroft.

[Telegram.]

WASHINGTON, October 24, 1872.

Congratulations on the award. The President directs thanks, in which I concur, for your able management of the case.

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SIR: At four minutes before 10 o'clock last evening I received the award of the Emperor on the question of boundary submitted Award received by the Government of the United States of America and the and forwarded. Government of Her Britannic Majesty to his arbitration.

I send the award by Mr. Frank Austin Scott, as special messenger. He will sail by the first German steamer, the Main, which leaves Bremen on Saturday, the 26th instant.

I inclose also a translation of the award, and a copy and translation of the note of Mr. Von Balan relating to it.

I congratulate you most heartily on this result, which is so greatly due to your own wisdom and forethought: first, in selecting as arbitrator a man of excellent judgment and an inflexible love of justice; next, in having defined with the utmost precision the question for arbitration; and lastly, in having brought together every document and book that

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