(TEXAS) First printing of a Mexican law restricting land sal

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(TEXAS.) First printing of a Mexican law restricting land sales to naturalized citizens. 3 printed pages, 12 x 8 inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes in margin, a few passages underlined in faint red ink, signed in type by Juan de Dios Cañedo as Secretary of State, with a manuscript paraph. Mexico, 12 March 1828

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The original printing of an important law regarding passports which affected American settlers in Texas and elsewhere. It ordered the deportation of foreigners without passports, forbid the holding of rural land by all but naturalized citizens of Mexico, and reaffirmed the colonization law of 1824. Articles 10 and 11 impose restrictions on foreign colonization, such as a new rule that 25% of the colonizers must be Mexicans. Non-naturalized citizens were forbidden from buying land in excess of 16 leagues and were required to sell after 12 years. Beyond that, land sales to unnaturalized citizens were regarded as fraudulent and the land could be claimed by any Mexican who brought it to the attention of the authorities. None traced on OCLC or at auction.