The undersigned takes this occasion to offer to Mr. Hamilton the
assurances of his high consideration.
CHAS. R. VAUGHAN.
[Footnote 13: Omitted.]
_Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Vaughan_.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
_Washington, March 11, 1829_.
Right Hon. CHARLES RICHARD VAUGHAN,
_Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Great Britain_.
SIR: I have received and laid before the President of the United States
the note, with its inclosures, which you did me the honor to write to me
on the 7th of this month in answer to a representation which was made
to you by Mr. Clay on the 9th of January last, at the instance of the
governor of Massachusetts, concerning depredations complained of by him
against inhabitants of the Province of New Brunswick in cutting timber,
preparing lumber for market, and erecting mills upon the soil of the
territory in dispute between the United States and Great Britain,
and I am directed by the President to state in reply, as I have
much pleasure in doing, that he derives great satisfaction from the
information contained in your communication, as he especially perceives
in the prompt and energetic measures adopted by Sir Howard Douglas,
lieutenant-governor of the Province in question, and detailed in the
inclosure referred to, a pledge of the same disposition on the part
of the authorities of that Province which animates this Government--to
enforce a strict observance of the understanding between the two
Governments that the citizens or subjects of neither shall exercise
any acts of ownership in the disputed territory whilst the title to it
remains unsettled.
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