File No. 812.00/2156.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé d’Affaires.

No. 68.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 21st instant, in which you request that the proper authorities of [Page 508] San Pedro, Cal., be requested to arrange to defeat the maneuvers of the Magonist Junta at Los Angeles toward sending expeditions from that place to Lower California.

In reply I have the honor to inform you that the Department of Justice has been requested to take appropriate action in regard to the matter.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. Knox.