File No. 283/65.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

No. 26]

Excellency: Referring to the department’s note No. 15, of the 20th ultimo, I have the honor to inform you that on the 23d ultimo the Secretary of the Interior requested the governor of Arizona to put again immediately into operation the precautionary measures that were employed by the authorities of Arizona last summer to prevent the smuggling of arms and ammunition into Mexico, for the use of the Yaqui Indians, and that the department is in receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in which he states that on the 23d ultimo he instructed the collector of customs at Nogales, Ariz., by telegraph, to renew his precautions against the smuggling of arms and ammunition into Mexico.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.