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Toluca: June 18, 1836. Very good plus.. Large folio broadside, 17 x 12.25 inches, printed in two columns in Spanish and English. Old folds, small stain near beginning of text, otherwise bright and clean. An exceedingly rare Toluca bando printing of the long-lingering 1828 Treaty of Limits between the United States and Mexico which finally sought to establish the boundary line between the two countries. The main text of the document is printed in two columns, in Spanish in the left column and English on the right. The main text is supplemented with an opening paragraph and several paragraphs following, all in Spanish. The broadside was intended to be displayed to the public in Toluca, Mexico to keep the populace informed of the progress of the treaty. "Under the third article of the Treaty of January 12, 1828, commissioners were to meet at Natchitoches within one year after the ratification of the treaty to run the boundary from the mouth of the Sabine to the Red River and from the Red River to the…
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Primera Secretaria de Estado Departamento del Exterior..."El Presidente interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella, Sabed: Que el Congreso General Ha Decretado Lo Siguiente. 1o. "El Territorio Mexicano Se Divide en Tantos Departamentos Cuantos Eran los Estados, con las Variaciones Siguientes..." [caption title and first lines of text]
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Mexico City: December 30, 1836. Near fine.. Small broadside, printed on first leaf recto of a bifolium. Very minor wear and dust soiling. A scarce decree of the Mexican Congreso General, approved by interim president Jose Justo Corro on December 30, 1836, and promulgated the same day by Secretary Jose Maria Ortiz Monasterio, dividing the country into as many Departments as there formerly were States, but separating Coahuila from Texas. It further authorizes the central government to locate the capital of Texas where most convenient when order is re-established there, and reorganizes California and Nuevo Mexico as Departamentos. The text reads, in part:
"1.o El Territorio Mexicano se divide en tantos Departamentos cuantos eran los Estados, con las varaciones siguentes. 2.o El que era Estado de Coahuila y Tejas, se divide en dos Departamentos, cada uno con su respectivo Territorio. Nuevo Mexico será Departamento. Las Californias. alta y baja, serán un Departamento.... 3.o El Gobernadory Junta Departamental de Coahuila ejercerán sus funciones solamente en el Departamento de este nombre. 4.o Cuando se restablezca el órden en el Departamento de Tejas, el Gobierno dictará todas las providencias necesarias á la organizacion de sus Autoridades, fijando su Capital en el lugar que considere mas oportuno."
The inability to establish their own state within Mexico was of course one of the Texas colonists' primary grievances. "Had this decree been passed in 1833, Texas might be a Mexican state today" - Eberstadt. We locate only five institutional examples -- the Streeter copy at Yale, as well as copies at Brown, Baylor, Southwestern, and the University of North Texas.
Eberstadt 162:581. Streeter Texas 882.
"1.o El Territorio Mexicano se divide en tantos Departamentos cuantos eran los Estados, con las varaciones siguentes. 2.o El que era Estado de Coahuila y Tejas, se divide en dos Departamentos, cada uno con su respectivo Territorio. Nuevo Mexico será Departamento. Las Californias. alta y baja, serán un Departamento.... 3.o El Gobernadory Junta Departamental de Coahuila ejercerán sus funciones solamente en el Departamento de este nombre. 4.o Cuando se restablezca el órden en el Departamento de Tejas, el Gobierno dictará todas las providencias necesarias á la organizacion de sus Autoridades, fijando su Capital en el lugar que considere mas oportuno."
The inability to establish their own state within Mexico was of course one of the Texas colonists' primary grievances. "Had this decree been passed in 1833, Texas might be a Mexican state today" - Eberstadt. We locate only five institutional examples -- the Streeter copy at Yale, as well as copies at Brown, Baylor, Southwestern, and the University of North Texas.
Eberstadt 162:581. Streeter Texas 882.
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- Date Published 1836
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El Ciudadano Luis Gonzaga Vieyra, Coronel Retirado y Gobernador del Departamento de Mexico. Por la Primera Secretaria de Estado Se Me Ha Dirigido con Fecha 18 del Proximo Pasado Junio, el Decreto Siguiente... [caption title]
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Primera Secretaria de Estado. Departamento del Interior. El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica MexicanaSe Ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue... Que Congreso General Ha Decretado la Siguiente Ley Constitucional... [caption title]
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Mexico City: December 15, 1835. Very good.. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Minor creasing and light edge wear. In a custom red leatherette folding chemise. Rare proclamation laying out the constitutional changes that solidified the Centralist system of government in Mexico in late 1835, supplanting the Federalist system established through the Constitution of 1824, and ending the First Mexican Republic. This is the first installment of the "Siete Leyes" or "Seven Laws," issued in fifteen articles on December 15, 1836; the remainder of the laws were fully issued by President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna by December 30. The significant changes made in the Mexican Constitution caused some states to rebel, as the Federalist system was abolished and substituted for a Centralist system in which the states became departments. Federalist revolts or anti-centralist conflicts caught fire in Texca, Zacatecas, Tampico, and, of course and eventually, Texas. Taken together, these laws, which came in the…
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