File No. 2491/48.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Costa Rican Minister on Special Mission.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th ultimo in which, in answer to the department’s note of the 26th ultimo, you state the questions in the boundary dispute [Page 780] between Costa Rica and Panama which your Government desires to have submitted to a new arbitration.

I have the honor to say that your note has been communicated to the American minister to Panama in substance, and in copy by mail.

I avail, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.