Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 302

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
"ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS RELATING TO TEXAS"--STREETER (TEXAS.) Quintanar, Luis. Early printing of the Imperial Colonization Law which set the rules for settlers of Texas. Letterpress broadside, 24 x 17 inches on two conjoined sheets, signed in type by Luis Quintanar as political head of Jalisco and secretary Miguel Badillo with manuscript paraphs; two 1/4-inch holes in text area, otherwise minimal wear. Guadalajara, 18 January 1823
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This was the first colonization law passed by independent Mexico. Stephen Austin's party had been granted special settlement terms in by the Spanish colonial government 1821, but this law set general guidelines for all future grants. It specifies that Catholic settlers were welcome if organized into groups of 200 families under specially appointed empresarios. Article 30 tacitly permitted slavery, but declared children born to slaves free at the age of fourteen: "No podrá hacerse despues de la promulgacion de esta ley venta ni compra de los esclavos que sean conducidos al Imperio: los hijos de éstos que nazcan en el serán libres á los catorce años de edad." This colonization law was soon applied to Austin's settlement.
The law was passed by the Junta Nacional on 3 January 1823, and approved by Emperor Agustin Iturbide the next day and published in Mexico City (see Streeter, Texas 694), and then this broadside was issued two weeks later in Guadalajara. This edition is not in OCLC, and has not been traced.