Statement of the rights and just reasons on the part of the government of the United Mexican States for not recognizing either the subsistence of the privilege granted to D. José Garay, for the opening of a line of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific seas, through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, or the legality of the cession which he made of said privilege to citizens of the United States of North America. Published by authority of the minister for foreign affairs