The Secretary of State to
Ambassador Thompson.
Department of State,
Washington, December 20,
1906.
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.,
[Inclosure.]
The Secretary of the
Treasury to the Secretary of
State.
Treasury Department,
Washington, December 15,
1906.
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
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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,
