Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 812.512/609.

Vice Consul Bevan to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]

No. 1415.]

American Consulate,
Tampico, April 9, 1915.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the Department’s instruction No. 786 of March 26, relative to the recent order to the oil companies to make future payments for the stamp tax in Vera Cruz. * * *

Unless otherwise instructed, the oil companies will make the next payment of the oil tax direct to Vera Cruz.

I have [etc.]

Thomas H. Bevan.