David Watkins to the secretary of the State of Jalisco, December 5, 1875

Messrs. Watkins and Morgan to the secretary of the State of Jalisco.

We are advised of your attentive communication, under date of to-day, in which you ask that we state if we have had the necessary guarantees for our personal security and the practice of our worship, and if it is true that the supreme government has afforded us all the protection which the laws concede to foreigners; and in reply we have the honor to state to you, for the satisfaction of the citizen governor, whom we esteem, that from the moment that we had the pleasure of setting foot upon the territory of this State, we have had and at present enjoy all the guarantees which the laws concede to foreigners, and very particularly the security of our persons, by the protection which, without our deserving it, the supreme government has afforded us. For what has been said, and as now the occasion is offered, we beg you to so state to the citizen governor, giving to him thanks for the attention which, thus far, he has shown us, offering to him, at the same time, the assurances of our regard for his person.