No. 239.
Señor Romero to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Washington, June 6, 1882. (Received June 7.)
Mr. Secretary: I have had the honor to receive your note of this date, whereby you acknowledge the receipt of mine of the 12th of May last, relative to the passage of United States and Mexican troops across the boundary line, in pursuit of hostile Indians, and wherein you were pleased to inclose, for the information of the Government of Mexico, a copy of a communication addressed to you by the Secretary of War, under date of the 31st of May last, in which that officer states that the terms proposed by Mexico for the consummation of such an arrangement are acceptable to the General of the Army of the United States and to the Secretary of War.
In reply, I have the honor to inform you that I this day send a copy and translation of your aforesaid note, and of the communication of the Secretary of War which accompanied it, to the secretary of foreign relations of the Mexican Republic, for his information.
I also transmit the substance of your aforesaid note by cable.
I avail myself, &c.,