No. 436.
Mr. Cayetano Romero to Mr. Davis.

[Translation.]

Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of yesterday, as an inclosure to which you, were pleased to transmit to me, for the information of the Government of Mexico a copy of a communication from the War Department, bearing date of the 13th instant, inclosing a copy of a telegram without signature, but which is supposed to have been sent by Brig. Gen. George Crook, of the United States Army, from which it appears that during his military operations on Mexican soil against the Chiricahua Indians he strictly observed the spirit of the agreement of July 29, 1882, between Mexico and the United States, which authorizes the reciprocal crossing of the frontier by troops.

In thanking you for the transmission of these documents, which I shall forward to the department of foreign relations of Mexico, I must inform you of the earnest desire of the Government and people of Mexico that the Government of the United States may adopt efficient and severe measures against the Indians who have been captured by General Crook, since on the measures that shall be adopted in their case depend the security and welfare of the frontier districts of Mexico, which have suffered so severely of late years from the continual depredations of Indians from this country.

I avail, &c.,

CAYETANO ROMERO.