File No. 812.00/2101.
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Washington, June 10, 1911.
Excellency: Referring to your note No. 1509, of the 6th instant, requesting that permission be granted by this Government for the transit of certain troops from El Paso, Tex., to Lower California, across American territory, and referring also to the Department’s note No. 49, of the 7th instant, in reply, stating that the President is willing to grant permission for such transit, subject to the acquiescence of the governors of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, provided that the troops were transported unarmed, their arms and ammunition being shipped as baggage, and the Mexican troops being accompanied by a detachment of American soldiers acting as an escort, I have the honor to inform your excellency that the Department is now in receipt of communications from the governors of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California in which they respectively state that there is no objection to the transit of the troops named by you under the conditions set forth by this Government.
Accept, etc.,