[l. s.] BARON VON LAGO, Royal Imperial Chargé d’ Affaires , Royal Imperial Austrian Mission to Colonel Count Kherenhueller, In Mexico, June 18, 1867

Baron Von Lago to Count Kherenhueller.

In reply to your honored letter of the 17th instant, I inform you, and through yon all the officers of Austrian nationality, officially, of the following final conditions set down by General Porfirio Diaz:

1. The ground basis of the present negotiation is that the Austrians abstain at once from every further participation in any hostilities against the republican army,

2. If they will leave the city by the 21st instant in the morning and present themselves on this side, General Porfirio Diaz guarantees to them all transportation at the expense of the republican government, and under safe conduct (for their personal protection) to Vera Cruz. He also guarantees to them their personal property. The officers will be permitted to retain their sidearms and private horses; all other weapons and horses must, however, be left with the general-in-chief.

3. If they allow the above period to pass without taking advantage of these concessions, but, having complied with the ground basis of section 1, assemble in the palace and raise the white flag near some permanently located camp, General Porfirio Diaz guarantees to them, in case of the taking of Mexico, only their lives, and the republican government will provide for the rest.

4. Individuals who, in one of the previous cases, desire to continue in the country, will receive from General Porfirio Diaz the desired guarantee of their persons and private property.

5. The circumstance that some individuals who are on duty at a distance cannot be informed in time will be taken into consideration until the morning of the 21st instant only. Later than that, the conditions set down in section 3 for those who may withdraw to the palace will apply to them.

6. The conditions set down for Austrians apply also to all others serving under their command not Mexicans. In regard to the Mexicans serving under them, General Porfirio Diaz cannot anticipate the decision of the republican government by accepting conditions which would constrain its final determination.

7. General Porfirio Diaz desires in your own interest that in case of your departure from Mexico you would inform him of that intention in time, in order to be able to aid your coming over in every way.

In doing myself the honor to bring the foregoing to your knowledge, I await your final decision and answer by the bearer of this official communication, and deem it my duty-insisting still on all the points of my official letter of the 16th instant—to add that his majesty the emperor Maximilian explained to me repeatedly at Queretaro that General Marquez was the greatest traitor.