File No. 812.512/19.

The Acting Secretary of State to Vice Consul Bowman.

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 230 of April 12, 1913, with regard to the payment of taxes on mining claims in Sonora owned by Americans.

In this connection your attention is referred to the Department’s telegram of April 26, 1913, [to Vice Consul Simpich] upon the subject.

I am [etc.]

Wilbur J. Carr
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