Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 322

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(TEXAS.) Bustamante, Anastasio; and Lucas Alamán. Unrecorded broadside printing of the notorious Law of April 6, 1830. Letterpress broadside, 16 3/4 x 12 inches, docketed on verso; faint dampstaining, minor wear, reinforced at folds on verso with archival tape. Tlalpan, Mexico, 10 April 1830

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This decree was intended to end the rapid flow of American immigrants into the Mexican state of Texas. It was met with outrage by Americans who had already settled and invested in the territory, and helped to spark the Texan Revolution. Among its provisions, it offered inducements such as free transportation to Mexicans settling in Texas (Article 7), barried immigrants who did not hold passports (Article 9), banned the importation of slaves (Article 10), and barred Americans from settling in the border regions (Article 11).
The original 3-page printing by the Mexican federal government is listed as Streeter Texas 759 ("of great importance in the history of Texas"); we have traced no copies on the market since 1994. The present printing by the State of Mexico issued four days later by order of Lieutenant Governor Joaquin Lebrija is not in OCLC and appears to be unrecorded. It is headed "El ciudadano Joaquin Lebrija, Teniente Gobernador del Estado libre de México, funcionando de Gobernador," and the quoted text begins with Article 1: "Se permite la entrada en los puertos de la República de los generos de algodon prohibidos en la ley de 22 de mayo."
"The same type of stimulus to the Texas Revolution that the Stamp Act was to the American Revolution"--Handbook of Texas.