NOTE. The unexpected arrival and early return to Vera Cruz of the
national war steamer Libertad, which conducted the recovered statue
to the Department of State, gave no time in which a copy of it
could be taken in this capital, the Government of the State
reserving the right to ask of the President of the Republic, who
resides in Mexico, to send such a copy to the Museo Yucateco, as a
just compensation.