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formally the right of the Company to present & ambɛequent
claim.
They again press President Diar to come to a
settlement without diplomatic intervention.
To this no answer has been returned, very probaby
on account of the troublous state of the country and to the
innumerable preoccupations with which the President has of
late been surrounded, and, finally, the Company, losing pa-
tience, have addressed to me ( Inclosure No 12) a petition
for the official intervention on teir behalf of the Legs-
tion.
You will, of course, have noticed that the Nom-
d
pany has not haf refort to the ribunals, although certain-
ly, under the circumstances, and in view of the auniuuions
made by the Ministers of the Interior and Finance, such a
corso appo-red superfinons.
I have the honour to solielt your instructions
on the ca98,
and to be inz'ormed whether the Tegation should
press the claim of the Company against the Mexican Govern-
ment officially.
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