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[1]p. In Spanish. Manuscript notation in upper right corner, "N. 8" and at bottom, "Al Alcalde de Allende." Folio. Minor staining in margins, light foxing. Very good. A rare Mexican Texas legal decree regarding further measures regulating military reserves after the adoption of the Plan of Jalapa, which sought to restore governing authority to the various Mexican states. Emanating from the state legislature of Coahuila y Tejas, and printed by the most prominent printer in Texas history, this copy was issued to the mayor of Allende, Coahuila, located about forty miles south of the Rio Grande. It is signed in type by José María Viesca, the governor of Coahuila y Tejas at the time of its printing, and his secretary, Santiago del Valle, with both of their manuscript rubrics following their printed names. The decree (translated into English in Kimball) is laid out in six articles, and designed to supplement Decree 108, which adopted the Plan of Jalapa (Xalapa) for the state of Coahuila and Texas. Here, the state congress removes "all the officers, against whom the public opinion has been clearly manifested" and "promises not to cooperate in measures tending to party revenge which the public policy and convenience require should be regarded as extinguished and forgotten." It also provides funding for these military reserves, "as the funds of the public revenue permit." The Plan of Jalapa was a controversial political maneuver proclaimed on December 4, 1829, in which Mexican political leaders inside the military publicly discredited centralist President Vicente Guerrero and eventually replaced him with Anastasio Bustamante, who vowed to restore the federalist form of government in Mexico. After taking over the presidency, Bustamante filled his cabinet with so-called "good men" but the political fallout led to clashes between centralist and federalist forces in several Mexican states. The military reservists called for in the Plan of Jalapa and referred to in the present document were expected to support Bustamante's government, though it was always difficult for any Mexican government during the Texas colonial period to recruit any lasting military force in the far-flung northern territory of Texas. It was especially difficult to do so after a steady stream of Americans and Europeans began to stream into the state in the late 1820s and early 1830s. "Decree 110 supplements Decree 108, both relating to the establishment of military reserves in the state" - Graff. "Decree of January 8, 1830, providing the extent to which Coahuila and Texas will cooperate with the military in reducing internal differences, as required by the Plan of Jalapa." - Jenkins. The present decree was printed by the most famous printer in Texas history. According to Texas bibliographer and bookseller John H. Jenkins, Samuel Bangs was also the "first printer in Texas, the first printer in three Mexican states, and the first printer west of the Louisiana Purchase." From about 1817 until his death in 1854, Bangs served as a printer for the Mina expedition, the Mexican government before the Texas Revolution (including the states of Tamaulipas and Coahuila y Tejas), various printing shops in the United States, and in various cities in the Republic of Texas, mainly Houston and Galveston. He has been the subject of two book-length biographical/bibliographic treatments: Lota M. Spell's PIONEER PRINTER and Jenkins' PRINTER IN THREE REPUBLICS. Bangs printed the present work during his time as official printer to the state legislature of Coahuila and Texas, which had lured him away from the government of Tamaulipas in 1828. Despite his rather prolific output, Bangs imprints are rarely encountered in today's market. Jenkins notes four copies - at "CIU" (no known institutional code, and perhaps a typo for the University of Chicago's "ICU"), the University of Texas at Austin, John Howell Books, and his own personal collection. The Graff copy is at the Newberry Library. OCLC add. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM56024
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