812.512/3522
The Chargé in Mexico (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 3.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Embassy’s despatch No. 1799 of August 13, 1929,97 relative to the attitude of the Mexican Government, as reported in the press, toward the collection of taxes which have already been paid to rebel authorities in de facto possession of given territory. I now have the honor to enclose herewith a translation of a decree of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, published in the Diario Oficial of August 23, 1929, No. 44, Vol. LV.97 By this measure the decree of March 5, 1929, which declared invalid the payment of fiscal credits made to rebels, is revoked. Article 2 of the decree provides that payments which were made to offices of the Federal Government during the time of the rebellion, and which payments also were made to rebel elements, will not be returned to the payers. The purpose of the decree seems to be to place Mexican nationals on as favorable a footing in regard to this matter as are foreign persons under rules of international law.
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