José Anocencio Arias to D. S. Richardson, December 30, 1875

Mr. Arias to Mr. Richardson.

I have received your honor’s note of the 27th instant, with which you are pleased to accompany a copy of the communication directed to the Secretary of State of the United States by the Minister of the Interior of the same country, in which he recommends that the remnants of the Kickapoo and Lipan Indians, who have been unwilling to return to the United States, may be removed to the interior of Mexico.

Your honor states that Mr. Chandler, the Minister of the Interior, desires that the government of Mexico may issue the necessary orders to enable Mr. Edgar, the special commissioner of the United States, to carry into effect such removal, and your honor concludes by expressing the hope that the desired orders may be given.

With the concurrence of the President, I have the honor to reply to your honor, that the receipt of your said note coincided with the receipt of a communication from the governor of the State of Coahuila, in which he announces the arrival of Mr. Edgar, and that said governor has already been advised to lend the necessary aid in case Mr. Edgar desires anew to induce the Indians to return to their reservations in the United States; but that if he desires that they be removed to the interior, to some determined place, that the said governor should inform this department of the points indicated to him, in order that, as a matter pertaining exclusively to the government of the union, it may decide upon what is proper.

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