Office of the Historian

812.00Sonora/693: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Chihuahua (Myers)

Washington, April 15, 1929—7 p.m.

Your April 12, 5 p.m. is being repeated to Embassy48 with instructions to request that appropriate Federal authorities in Chihuahua be instructed by telegraph not to insist upon payment of taxes which have already been paid by American citizens to persons exercising de facto authority in accordance with principles of international law set forth in Department’s March 29, 4 [6] p.m.49 You will advise American citizens who may be forced to repay such taxes to Federal authorities not to pay except under protest and to demand receipts.

Stimson
  1. As telegram No. 288, April 15, 7 p.m.↩
  2. See telegram No. 217 of the same date to the Ambassador in Mexico, p. 373.↩