Lerdo de Tejada to Citizen Matias Romero , Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Mexican Republic, March 31, 1866

[Translation.]

I have received your note No. 88 of the 7th of February last, with a copy of Mr. Seward’s to you on the same day, in regard to the custom-house duties ordered to be collected from certain American citizens in Acapulco by the governor of the State of Guerrero.

In your note of the 24th of the same month, No. 133, you said you had received mine of the 22d of January, No. 22, in which I told you what the minister of hacienda had communicated on the subject, a copy of which you transmitted to Mr. Seward.

I now send a copy of your note No. 88, with Mr. Seward’s to you on the 7th of February, to the minister of hacienda, as it is his duty to decide the affair, which has not been settled for want of the proper information from the governor of Guerrero, and which could not be had on account of the distance and the insecurity of the roads.

Accept my attentive consideration.