No. 27.]
Mexican Republic, Department
of Interior and Foreign Relations National Palace,
Mexico,
June 22,
1861.
As the consequence of your note relative to the permission that
government asks from the government of this republic for the
passage of American troops through its territory, I send you the
annexed copy, containing the sovereign assent which has been
given in the matter, in order that you may transmit it to the
Department of State of the United States, and on the occasion I
repeat to you the assurances of my consideration.
LUCAS DE PALACIO Y MAGAROLA.
[Untitled]
Office of the Secretary of
the Congress of the Union.
The sovereign congress to which we made report of your note
of the thirty-first last past, relative to the permission
sought by the government at Washington for the passage of
federal troops from Guaymas to Arizona, has pleased, at its
secret session yesterday, to approve the following
proposition:
First. The executive shall have power to grant the permission
which the government of the United States has asked, to
disembark at this time, at the port of Guaymas, a body of
troops, under the assurance it has proffered that they shall
march, by the most direct route, to the Territory of
Arizona, and that in their transit they will observe the
strictest regard for the rights and authority of the
government of Mexico, and for the persons, property and
interests of the citizens of the republic.
Second. The executive will issue suitable instructions to the
government of the state of Sonora, and to the federal
functionaries therein, that at the disembarcation and on the
passage of that body of troops, no hindrance be in their
way.
We send this to you for your information, and consequent
effects, and as the result of the note referred to, to which
we respond.
God and liberty!
Mexico, June 21, 1861.
G. VALLE.
E. ROBLES.
The Chief Clerk in charge of the
Department of Foreign Affairs.
Mexico, June 22,
1861
True copy:
JUAN DE DIOS ARIAS, Chief
Clerk.
Washington, August 26,
1861.
True copy:
