(WEST TEXAS) Valentín Canalizo Decree waiving the death pen

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(WEST--TEXAS.) Valentín Canalizo. Decree waiving the death penalty for certain Texan prisoners of war--but not their leaders. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, signed in type by Canalizo as Governor of the State of Mexico, and by Joaquin Noriega as secretary; stitch holes, one horizontal fold, light staining at corners, lone wormhole, mount remnants on verso. In custom gilt calf folder. 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.