Mr. Hay to Señor
Azpíroz.
Department of State,
Washington
,
October 17,
1900
.
No. 121.]
Excellency: I have the honor to inclose
herewith copy of a letter from the governor of Texas acknowledging the
receipt of the draft for $14,851.48 which you inclosed to this
Department with your note of the 2d instant and expressing to the
President, the Congress, and the people of Mexico the most grateful
appreciation of himself and of the people of Texas for this generous
contribution to the relief of the storm sufferers at Galveston.
Accept, etc.,
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[Inclosure.]
Governor Sayers
to Mr. Hay.
Executive Office, State of Texas,
Austin
,
October 10, 1900
.
Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your favor of the 6th instant with the inclosure of a
draft for $14,851.48, the same being the equivalent in United States
gold of $30,000 Mexican money, voted by the Congress of the United
Mexican States toward the relief of the suffering caused at
Galveston by the recent storm; also copies of the note to you by the
Mexican ambassador, inclosing the same, and of your reply
thereto.
You will please convey, through the Mexican ambassador, to the
President, the Congress, and the people of Mexico the most grateful
acknowledgments of myself and of the people of this State for the
prompt, unsolicited, and generous contribution to the relief of the
storm sufferers at Galveston.
I can only indicate my appreciation of this generous exhibition of
kindly feeling upon the part of our neighboring Republic by
expressing the sincere hope that prosperity, peace, and happiness
may forever abide within its borders.
I have, etc.,
Joseph D. Sayers,
Governor of Texas.