File No. 812.00/20820

The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State

Excellency: I have the honor to communicate to your excellency, that the consular agent of the Mexican Government at Presidio, Texas, has sent to this office a list of the arms, ammunition and accoutrements that were taken from a force of Mexican soldiers, which had the necessity of crossing the frontier into the United States, by the garrison at Ruidosa, Texas, under the command of 1st. Lieutenant Hugh P. Avent, of the 6th Regiment, who issued the respective receipt.

As the articles above stated are the property of the Mexican Government, I beg your excellency, in the most friendly manner, to recommend the issuance of the necessary orders, so that those articles may be delivered to the consular agent of my Government at Presidio, Texas; and that permission be granted to him to forward said articles to Mexico.

Accept [etc.]

Y. Bonillas