Letter
Thomas H Nelson to Hamilton Fish, November 18, 1871
No. 268. Mr. Nelson to Mr. Fish.
Legation of the United States, Mexico, November 18, 1871. (Received December 26.)
No. 472.]
Sir: I herewith inclose copies and translations of two important circulars that were issued by the minister of the treasury, dated October 20 and October 30, for the purpose of preventing frauds upon the treasury on the northern frontier, by the importation of goods without the payment of the federal duties, and also to enforce the payment of duties when foreign goods shall pass through the territory occupied by the insurgents toward the interior. (A, B, C, and D.)
I am, &c.,
THOMAS H NELSON.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.