(WEST TEXAS) Agustín Viesca Decree restricting the militia

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(WEST--TEXAS.) Agustín Viesca. Decree restricting the militia of Coahuila y Tejas shortly before the revolution. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/2 x 9 inches, signed in type as governor of Coahuila y Tejas, with manuscript notes, and additionally by Angel Navarro, directing to the chief at Goliad, TX; horizontal fold, ink burns to manuscript additions, 6 early tape repairs including two holes in left margin; modern private library bookplate on verso. With transcript and translation. Monclova, 20 May 1835

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Just months before the outbreak of open rebellion in Texas, Governor Viesca, forwards a decree by Mexico's Minister of the Interior, José María Gutiérrez de Estrada. The minister noted that a 7 April order by the Texas legislature, allowing the governor to call out the local militia to maintain the peace, was in conflict with a 31 March federal decree. He concludes (in translation) that the government "cannot allow partial measures to subsist that conflict directly with the general laws. . . . It will be the responsibility of Your Excellency for the lack of compliance with what was agreed by the Congress if your government insists on upholding the aforementioned article."

The manuscript additions show that this copy was sent by Angel Navarro, the political head of San Antonio de Bexar, to his counterpart in Goliad. Streeter, Texas 838 (calling for a second blank leaf not found here). 2 in OCLC, and no other examples traced at auction.