Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE (CALIFORNIA.) Group of 3 items relating to the use of Alta California as a Mexican penal colony. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4, docketed in manuscript in top margin, with 2 related manuscripts, the same size and smaller; all 3 disbound on left edge, with minimal wear. Puebla, Mexico, 1831
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The broadside is a 1 March 1831 printing of an 1824 decree regarding convicts in Puebla, Mexico, signed in type by Governor Juan José Andrade. The first clause reads "Los jueces del Estado condenarán solamente al presidio de la Alta California, á los reos que mereciendo pena de muerte, pueda conmutárseles en otra conforme á las leyes"--prisoners were sent to California who deserved the death penalty, but whose sentences had been commuted. No copies traced in OCLC. Offered with two related letters on the Presidio de California, 31 October and 10 November 1831.