611.125/120
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador (Téllez)
Excellency: In further reference to Your Excellency’s note No. 1556 dated March 18, 1929,31 requesting that special authority be granted whereby residents of Naco, Sonora, may be permitted to import five hundred head of cattle, which they desire to maintain at some place in the vicinity of Naco, Arizona, during a period of sixty days, with the understanding that the said cattle are to be returned to Mexico at the expiration of that period or, in the event that the cattle are not so returned, that the corresponding United States import duties shall be duly paid by the interested persons, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Department of Agriculture and the Treasury Department of this Government informed this Department under date of March 26 and 30 [28?]1929,31 respectively, that instructions had been issued to Dr. Thomas A. Bray, Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 13 Livestock Exchange Building, El Paso, Texas, and to the Collector of Customs at El Paso, Texas, in whose district Naco is situated, whereby interested residents of Naco, Sonora, may make the desired arrangements for the importation of cattle in the circumstances set forth in Your Excellency’s note under reference.
Accept [etc.]