Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 812.512/891.

The Secretary of State to Mr. Parker, representing American interests in Mexico.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 11, 1915.

130. Your 151, November 10. Only result to date of Department’s representations is decree August 31, modifying taxes imposed law March 25, temporarily and only for the two tercios included between the months of July of this year and February proximo, which provides that taxes from November 1915 to February 1916 per pertenencia for any number shall be $2.66 Mexican gold.

Lansing.