File No. 711.121GM/387.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

No. 1690.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s instruction No. 974 of the 10th instant and to report that the action therein contemplated has been taken and that I am in receipt of an acknowledgment from the Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs wherein it is stated that the subject will receive the early attention of this Government. With reply in extenso of the Minister I shall transmit a copy of my note based upon the paragraphed comment transmitted with the department’s instruction.

I have [etc.]

Henry Lane Wilson.