File No. 711.1216M/194.
[Translation.]
Washington, January 4, 1911.
Excellency: Referring to the Department’s note of December 24 last, and in compliance with special instructions of the department of foreign relations, I have the honor to inform your excellency that my Government does not consider the maintenance of the Colorado River defensive works to be a proper subject for a treaty, since the agreements relative thereto are to be embodied in the contract to be made by the Government of my country with the Mexican company builder of the said works.
The exchange of notes between the Department and the embassy fixing the general bases for the execution of the works having now been effected, my Government holds that all the other agreements must be exclusively arranged between the building company and the Department concerned.
I renew, etc.,