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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10, January 16, 1888. President Cleveland authorizes and directs the Secretary of State to cause the Seal of the United States to be affixed to “my full power for the Costa Rica & Nicaragua Boundary appointing Mr. George L. Rives to examine points of dispute between the two governments.” Signed neatly at the conclusion by Grover Cleveland. In fine condition. George Lockhart Rives (1849–1917) was an American lawyer, politician, and author who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State from 1887 to 1889.
This document pertains to the Cañas–Jerez Treaty between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, which was enacted on April 15, 1858, as a solution to the growing border tension between the two countries. The treaty was negotiated between Máximo Jerez, representing Nicaragua, and José María Cañas, representing Costa Rica. It established a border between the two countries that skirts the southern edge of Lake Nicaragua, then moves east along the San Juan River for the last third of the division, following it north from where it forks from the Rio Colorado. The treaty puts the border on the right bank of the river, giving the river to Nicaragua, but provides commercial navigation rights to Costa Rica.
According to the Cañas-Jerez Treaty of 1858, reaffirmed in arbitration by President Grover Cleveland on March 22, 1888, and interpreted by the Central American Court of Justice in 1916, Nicaragua is sovereign over the Río San Juan, and Costa Rica has the right to navigate over part of the river with articles for trade which in case of need, as determined by Nicaragua can be accompanied by revenue cutters. The treaty also states that no taxes would be imposed on Costa Rican trade in goods except those accepted by mutual agreement.
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