Ruellas to To the, April 26, 1880

The chief clerk in charge of the department of public works writes as follows:

“Citizen Ignacio Garfias: I have the honor to transmit it to you for your information, and of result of your communication of the 8th (?), of 1879, staging that in view of the scientific report of Engineer Garfias, inclosed in this communication, and of the one sent by the consul of Mexico in Rio Grande City, which I had the honor to inclose in my dispatch of the 7th of February last, that the islands of Sabinito and Morteritos, situated near Roma, Tex., belong entirely to the territory of the Republic.”