812.113/10580a

The Acting Secretary of State to Consular Officers in Mexico

Sirs: There is enclosed herewith, for your information, a copy of the Proclamation issued by the President on July 18, 1929, lifting the embargo which had been in force since January 7, 1924, on the exportation of arms and munitions of war to Mexico. Accordingly, Department of State licenses to export such material to Mexico are no longer required.

I am [etc.]

J. P. Cotton
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[Enclosure]

Proclamation No. 1885, July 18, 1929, Lifting the Embargo on the Exportation of Arms or Munitions of War to Mexico

By the President of the United States of America

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas, by a Proclamation of the President issued on January 7, 1924, under a Joint Resolution of Congress approved January 31, 1922, it was declared that there existed in Mexico such conditions of domestic violence as were or might be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States; and

Whereas, by the Joint Resolution above mentioned it thereupon became unlawful to export arms or munitions of war to Mexico except under such limitations and exceptions as the President should prescribe:

Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America do hereby declare and proclaim that, as the conditions on which the Proclamation of January 7, 1924, was based no longer obtain, the said Proclamation is hereby revoked.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[seal]
Herbert Hoover

By the President:
H. L. Stimson,
Secretary of State.