Millard Fillmore: “A copy of a note from the special plenipotentiary of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeek accompanies the convention.”

This measure meets my approbation.

Although it is stipulated by the terms of the first article of the convention that the commissioner on the part of this Government shall be appointed by the President of the United States, it is not understood that this stipulation was…

To the Senate of the United States

It is deemed advisable by the Department that our diplomatic relations with the States of Central America should be placed on a higher and more efficient footing.