Message from the President of the United States Transmitting .,.Relative to the Mexican Zona Libre

23x14cm, 153 pp., Later (recent) binder's blind boards. Caption-titled. Some small chips to side margin of first page. Full title reads: "Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Letter of the Secretary of State, In Response to Senate Resolution of February 16, 1888, Relative to the Mexican Zona Libre". Series: Senate Executive Document (United States. Congress. Senate), 50th Congress, 1st Session, no. 130. ["Among the many issues which strained United States relations with Mexico during the late 19th Century was the Zona Libre, a Mexican free trade zone along the international border. Established in 1858 to halt the commercial decline of Tamaulipas border towns, this district had important social, economic and political repercussions in both Mexico and the United States. For almost 50 years the Zone's existence aroused the ire of American border merchants who charged that it encouraged smuggling and deprived the United States Treasury of millions of dollars annually in import duties.." - Samuel E. Bell & James H. Smallwood "Zona Libre: Trade & Diplomacy on the Mexican Border 1858-1905"].…