The Department of State to the Mexican Embassy.
Washington, July 19, 1905.
The Department of State has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum of an oral communication from his government concerning the abolition of the Free Zone adjoining the United States with which the chargé d’affaires of Mexico favored it on the occasion of his personal call of the 18th instant.
The Government of the United States has received with sincere gratification the assurances of the friendly motives which actuated the Mexican Government in taking this step, and begs to assure the chargé d’affaires of its cordial reciprocation of the good will and friendship of his government and its high appreciation of its obliging courtesy.