Francisco Echartea to A. Perales , Secretary, April 22, 1875

Governor Echartea to Mr. Lafragua.

Citizen Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico: With due promptness the government of this State has addressed the authorities of the line of the Bravo, making known to them the contents of the telegrams which your superior authority was pleased to send me in your worthy communication of the 3d instant, relative to the local disorders or crimes committed in the interior of Texas, which outrages are supposed to have been perpetrated, in part, by some malefactors resident in Mexico, who avowedly went to those regions to commit acts of vandalism; with the object that these authorities may report to this superior authority the information which they may obtain, but especially with the object of preventing the crossing to American territory of any Mexicans to commit crimes, and also of arresting those who may have committed crimes there and who may come seeking a shelter in our communities.

You will please, citizen minister, to make known to the citizen President that there have already been taken the proper measures by this government, in order that there may not be the least occasion of complaint against the authorities of the frontier, stating to you that, on receiving the reports which have been called for, I will communicate them to your department for your superior information, and in compliance with the request in your worthy note cited.

Independence and liberty.