File No. 2491/95.
The Secretary of State to the Minister of Panama.
Washington, December 16, 1909.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 36, of the 6th instant, in which you state that, as the department was informed in your note of October 29 last, you have no instructions from your Government to deal, with the question of the boundary dispute between Panama and Costa Rica, but that you have informed your Government of the department’s suggestion that yourself and the minister of Costa Rica on special mission visit the Department of State on the 15th proximo, or soon thereafter, in order to discuss the question with the Secretary of State.
You express the hope that the conference may take place, and again express your Government’s gratitude for the interest taken by the department in the controversy.
[Page 803]In a note, dated the 6th instant, Mr. Anderson, the minister of Costa Rica on special mission, informs the department that he is prepared to take part in the proposed conference.
The department thanks you for the information contained in your note, and awaits the receipt from you of a note, which, it is earnestly hoped, will advise the department that you have been empowered to sign an agreement for arbitration so ample as to include all the questions in dispute as to the boundary, and not limited to any one or more of them.
Accept, etc.,