Office of the Historian

File No. 812.404/16.

Consul Canada to the Secretary of State.

No. 1041.]
American Consulate,
Veracruz, September 25, 1914.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit inclosed herewith an order from the Governor of the State of Veracruz to the Military Authorities relative to the clergy.

I have [etc.]

Wm. W. Canada
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[Inclosure—Translation.]

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[From Official Gazette of September 19, 1914.]

Decree concerning clergy.

Office of the Secretary of the Constitutionalist Government of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz.

In order to explain the resolution made by the Governor and Military Commander of the State, General Candido Aguilar, relative to the clergy, I hereby make known that he has ordered the definite expulsion of the foreign clergymen, permitting the nationals to exercise their functions, in the following proportions.

In towns: of 500 to 10,000 inhabitants, one priest; of 10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants, two priests; from 30,000 upwards, up to four priests as a maximum.

Jalapa, 11th of September, 1914. Government Secretary, Heriberto Jara.