Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 345.
Mr. Fish to Sir Edward Thornton.

Department of State,
Washington, October 27, 1874.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, in which you are pleased to state, in answer to the inquiry of this Department, that the whole of Labrador outside of the province of Quebec, is under the jurisdiction and government of the colony of Newfoundland, and is actually included in and forms a part of that colony.

Thanking you for this information,

I have. &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.