Benito Juarez to The Citizen Matias Romero, May 7, 1868

Transit duties on merchandise.

Department of Treasury and Public Credit.–Section 1.

Under this date the citizen President of the republic has been pleased to address to me the following decree:

Benito Juarez, constitutional President of the United Mexican States, to the inhabitants of the same, be it known that the sovereign congress of the Union has thought proper to decree the following:

The congress of the Union decrees:

Sole article. No State can collect duties for the simple transit of merchandise, nor impose under any denomination, upon the products of other States, greater contributions than those exacted upon its own products.

Hall of sessions, Mexico, May 1, 1868.

FRANCISCO TRAREO, President.

Guillermo Valle, Secretary,

Joaquin Maria Alcade, Secretary.

Wherefore I order that it be printed, published, circulated, and that due compliance be given to it.