File No. 2491/79.

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

No. 835.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 14th instant, in which you inform the department that your Government, being convinced that it will be impossible to obtain a satisfactory settlement of the boundary dispute between Costa Rica and Panama by means of direct negotiations, has decided to solicit again the good offices of the Government of the United States, in order to induce the Government of Panama to agree to the submission of the question to a tribunal of arbitration, if it should be impossible to reach any other solution; and that, with this end in view, your Government will again accredit Señor Don Luis Anderson as its envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary on special mission to this country.

In reply I have the honor to say that it has given the department pleasure to see Señor Anderson.

Accept, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.