Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 458.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Manning.

Department of State,
Washington, April 27, 1887.

No. 93.]

Sir: I have received your No. 117, of the 15th instant, relative to the Mexican law concerning foreigners.

While appreciating the disposition of the Mexican Government to afford opportunity to citizens of the United States who desire to do so to comply with the provisions of the law in question of June Jast, this Department, for the reasons set forth in its instructions of November 20 last, is still compelled to dissent from the position that foreigners who have purchased land or had children born to them in Mexico may, from time to time, by a municipal statute, be deprived of their nationality unless they take some affirmative step to preserve it.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.