Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.516/137

The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador

Department of State,
Washington, September 25, 1916.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, of your excellency’s note of September 18, 1916, in further relation to the action of the de facto Government of Mexico, in requiring the bank of London and Mexico, and the National Bank of Mexico to redeem a large portion of their bank notes, at par, in coin.

In reply I have the honor to inform your excellency that, in compliance with your request, I have sent several copies, in translation, of your note to the American commissioners, at New London, Connecticut.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing