Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.63/482

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Fletcher

No. 377

Department of State,
Washington, November 27, 1917.

Sir: Referring to Mr. Summerlin’s telegram No. 342,² of July 30, 1917, 4 p.m., reporting that a new mining law containing no radical features was being prepared by the Mexican Minister of Industry and Commerce and would probably be submitted to the Congress at its regular session, you are instructed to furnish the Department with a copy of the new law as soon as it can be obtained.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Frank L. Polk

2. Not printed.