Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(TEXAS.) Canalizo, Valentín. Decree waiving the death penalty for certain Texan prisoners of war--but not their leaders. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, signed in type by Canalizo as governor of the state of Mexico, and by Joaquin Noriega as secretary; disbound, one horizontal fold, docketed on verso. Toluca, 23 April 1836

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"Substituting perpetual banishment for the death penalty in the case of certain Texan prisoners of war, but not members of the government and leaders of the revolution. . . . This decree was passed in the flush of the victory at the Alamo, applied to those rebellious Texans who surrendered within fifteen days. . . . Those not already subject to the death penalty might be punished by ten years imprisonment in interior regions"--Streeter, Texas 876 (re the 14 April first printing). This is a local printing of the decree by President José Justo Corro, with seven additional articles added by Governor Canalizo. This printing not traced in OCLC or at auction.