File No. 812.63/388
Ambassador Fletcher
to the Secretary of State
No. 3
American Embassy,
Mexico City,
February 21, 1917.
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s telegram of February 17, 5 p.m. and to my reply thereto No.
2, of February 19, 2 p.m., relative to the decrees with respect to the
operation of mines, and to enclose herewith a copy and translation of
the latest official statement in the matter, which consists of a
circular issued by the Department of Fomento on February 16, 1917.
I have [etc.]
[Inclosure—Translation]
circular issued by department of fomento on
february 16, 1917, relative to decrees with respect to operation
of mines
The period referred to in Article 1 of the Decree of September 14,
1916, having expired, as well as the extension granted by Circular
No. 22 issued by this Department on November 14 of the same year, to
the end that the concessionaires of mining properties should proceed
with the exploitation thereof, the Citizen First Chief of the
Constitutionalist Army, in charge of the Executive Power has seen
fit to direct that:
- 1.
- The mining enterprises which have set before the
Department of Fomento, Colonization and Industry the reasons
which have prevented their compliance with the decree above
mentioned, may be allowed a last extension which shall be
fixed by this Department in accordance with the especial
nature of each case.
- 2.
- The enterprises which have not addressed to this
Department any petition for extension, whether the property
concerned is developed or not, will be intervened by the
Department of Finance and Public Credit, in so far as the
penalty of forfeiture may be declared by the Department of
Fomento in compliance with the decree referred to. To this
end, the Department of Hacienda will be furnished with a
list of the names of each and every one of the claims or
properties which should be intervened.
All of which is made of public knowledge and of the knowledge of the
interested parties for proper compliance.
Constitution and Reforms
Mexico, February 16, 1917
