File No. 812.00/16542.

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Department’s October 19, notice of recognition. Secretary of Foreign Relations Acuña presents the following note addressed to me requesting that same be transmitted to the Government of the United States:

By your courteous note dated the 19th instant I have been advised that His Excellency the President of the United States has recognized the de facto Government of Mexico, and citizen Venustiano Carranza as head of the Executive Power of the Mexican Republic; and also that the Government of the United States is disposed formally to receive a diplomatic representative of the Mexican Government and will for its part accredit a diplomatic representative to the citizen First Chief as soon as your Government has an opportunity to designate him.

In due response I have the pleasure to say to you that the citizen First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army will at the first opportunity appoint a diplomatic representative near the American Government and will receive with pleasure the representative whom the President of the United States may appoint, so that the relations of friendship which have always existed between the two nations may resume their usual course.

Thanking you sincerely for your felicitations and good wishes for Mexico and with wishes for the prosperity of American people,

I have [etc.]

Acuña.

J. W. Belt.