The Secretary of State to Ambassador Thompson.

Sir: Referring to instruction No. 167, of the 14th instant, I inclose herewith for your information a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that the regulations for the transit of merchandise from port to port of the United States through Mexican territory will be published for the information and guidance of customs officers, with instructions to accept the manifest referred to in paragraph 2 of the regulations when presented either by the owner or shipper or by the carrier.

I am, etc.,

E. Root.
[Inclosure.]

The Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of State.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, in which, referring to this department’s letter of the 12th idem, in regard to amendments at the suggestion of the Mexican Government for shipments from port to port in Mexico through the United States, under section [Page 1114] 3005 of the Revised Statutes, you state that “it may reasonably be assumed that the intention of the understanding is that each Government shall make known to the other any modifications of the transit regulations which may be made or contemplated, thus affording opportunity to make appropriate representations against any change which may be found or deemed burdensome or calculated to impair the principle of reciprocal favor upon which the understanding rests.”

The regulations will be published for the information and guidance of customs officers, with instructions to accept the manifest referred to in paragraph 2 of the regulations when presented either by the owner or shipper or by the carrier.

Respectfully,

L. M. Shaw.