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The Mexican Ambassador (Téllez) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s kind note of April 5 of this year, in which you were so good as to inform me that instructions were duly given to the appropriate authorities of the American Army to permit the return to Mexican territory of the Mexican Federal officer and of the ten soldiers who were arrested by the local authorities of Naco, Arizona, on April 3.
Your Excellency was good enough also to declare to me that the arms and munitions which were in the possession of the said soldiers will be kept for the present by the American authorities and later returned to the Mexican Federal Commandant of Naco, Sonora.
I am happy to inform Your Excellency that the necessary orders will be duly given with a view to preventing Mexican soldiers from crossing the dividing line in the future.
Thanking Your Excellency most sincerely for the attention you were so kind as to give this matter, I am [etc.]