Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 572.
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West.

Department of State,
Washington, April 19, 1888.

The Secretary of State of the United States has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note verbale, dated the 17th instant, and left at this Department on that day by the Hon. Sir L. S. Sackville West, in relation to the stipulations of the convention of December 6, 1884, between the United States and Hawaii, concerning Pearl River Harbor.

The Secretary of State has the honor to refer to his personal note on this subject to Sir Lionel West, under date of the 15th of February last.