No. 212.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Morgan.

[Extract.]
No. 271.]

Sir: Acknowledging the receipt of your telegram of the 13th ultimo, in relation to the reciprocal passage of troops across the border when in pursuit of hostile Indians, I have now the pleasure to inclose, for your information, a copy of a letter from the Secretary of War, of the 31 st ultimo, wherein he announces that the proposed terms or conditions upon which such passage may be made are acceptable to the General of the Army and to himself.

I have also communicated a copy of Mr. Secretary Lincoln’s letter to Mr. Eomero, the Mexican minister at this capital, for the information of his government, he having forwarded hither a telegram similar in purport to your own.

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I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.
[Inclosure in No. 271.]

Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, transmitting a copy of a note from the minister of Mexico at this capital, in relation to the reciprocal passage of troops across the border, in pursuit of fugitive Indians, and a copy of a telegram from the United States minister at the city of Mexico, presenting the terms upon which such passage may be made.

In reply thereto, I beg to state that this correspondence was duly referred to the General of the Army, who, in returning the same, expresses the opinion that “the terms proposed by the Mexican minister in his communication of May 12, 1882, are just and fair, and should be accepted pure and simple.”

The views of the General of the Army are concurred in by this department, and should they receive the approval of the Department of State, the necessary instructions will be issued by the military authorities to carry the same into effect

Very respectfully, &c.,

ROBERT T. LINCOLN,
Secretary of War.