File No. 812.512/1915

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Mexico ( Fletcher)

[Telegram]

936. Department’s No. 895, March 19, noon, petroleum law. Your attention is called to decree reported to have been recently issued by Department of Industry and Commerce, and published in El Universal, March 15, providing that if statements are not submitted in accordance with provisions Article 14 of law, owners and lessees will not be permitted to perform any work of development.

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