File No. 723.2415/172.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister of Peru.
Washington, May 13, 1912.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant communicating the gratifying information that a protocol was signed at La Paz whereby the special commissions to mark out the boundaries between Peru and Bolivia were empowered to establish the confines between the rivers Heath and Naverija, and that the commissions have already agreed upon the entire line of the said boundary.
The fact that the Governments of Peru and Bolivia have thus peacefully settled this difficulty, thereby removing a cause of friction between one another, and giving to the world a fresh proof of a cordial love of peace, is very gratifying to this Government.
Please be so good as to communicate to the President of Peru the congratulations of the President of the United States.
Accept [etc.]