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In answer to your proposition TO evacu-
ate the city and fort with all the person
iceland materel of war, have to state that
NV duty compels me 10 decline iacceding
to it. A complete surrender of the town
and garrison, the latter as prisoners OF war;
Is now demanded. But such surrender
will be upon terms, and the gallant de-
lence of the place, creditabIe alike 10 'he
Mexican troops and nation, Will Prolnp'
me to make those terms as Liberal as pos.
sible. The garrison will be allowed a. al
your option, after laying down lis arms 70 {,
retire to the interior on conoi'ion oi no'
eervine again during the war, or until regu-
larly Exchanged. | need hardly say thaf
the rights of fnon-combatants VIII be re-
ected'


An answer to this communication is re-
,n;red bv 10 o'clock. If you assent to
an accommodation, an oncer will be des
Matched at once, under instructions to ar
range the conditions.


am, sir, very respectfully,


Your obedent servant,
Z. TAYLOR,


Mai. Gen. U. S. A. commanding.


SENIOR D. PEDRO DE AMPUDIA,


General in Chief, Montery.