the General Colonization Law of 18 Aug 1824 (full 17 articles) — the foundational Mexican land/colonization statute: foreigners' security; only ungranted national land colonizable; the 20-league-border / 10-league-coast restriction; the 11-league grant maximum (1 sq. league irrigated + 4 temporal + 6 grazing); preference to Mexican citizens; empresario-contract guarantees; no mortmain; no holding if domiciled abroad → see Entry 4
| Date | 1824-08-18 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Alamán (México) |
| To | Jefe Político |
| Series | State Papers, Sacramento |
| Tomo | X–XIX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | XVI·888–893 |
| Savage copy page | 318–321 |
| Scan leaf | n317–320 |
| Document type | verbatim (law) |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Alamán (México) to Jefe Político, 1824-08-18, State Papers, Sacramento, X–XIX, XVI·888–893, Archives of California, C-A 56, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within X–XIX]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca56/ca56-d368.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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