Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part II

No. 849.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Romero.

Department of State,
Washington, January 23, 1888.

Sir: In connection with previous correspondence, and in reply to your note of the 9th instant, wherein you say that Mexican cattle have not hitherto been infected with any contagious disease, I have the honor to request that I may be advised of the system of sanitary inspection and control exercised by the Mexican Government with reference to its native cattle as well as with those imported from any quarter, including the several States and Territories of the United States.

As the regulation of this matter of cattle quarantine is under the several governments of the Union, and as the precautionary measures adopted by them are often necessarily operative against other States or Territories, it is desirable to be assured that the conditions of sanitary inspection and control in Mexico are such that local quarantine of this nature may not be evaded by mere transit from an infected locality through Mexican territory.

The importance of this matter will, I am sure, commend itself to you, and I shall appreciate the favor of a report in relation thereto.

Accept, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.