The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 323
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Tadeo Ortiz and the Colonization of Texas, 182-1833 323
in the old towns and cities, shall be forced to live by their own
work under the strict discipline that would be established in mili-
tary colonies.
10. To create the necessary funds by the suppression of a cer-
tain number of benefices or by the imposition of a tax on these
and on the bishoprics, and by the income from the convents, which
should be suppressed, because they do not have any resident mem-
bers. Their property should be confiscated, and used exclusively
for the payment of the expense of administration, education, culti-
vation, development and fortification of the frontier territories.
11. To annul, without harming the established families, the
concessions and prerogatives granted since the year 182 to the
national and foreign empresarios who have not respected the laws
and not fulfilled their contract in conformity with them, by exact-
ing beforehand sufficient guarantees and suitable bond that will
aid in the founding of settlements in conformity with national
interests, security and progress of the new districts, and with the
general system of colonization which may be adopted and carried
out by an inspector created for that purpose by a new law.
12. To encourage and form in Europe, colonizing companies
and enterprises among the government officials and individuals of
friendly powers, by means of the diplomatic and commercial agents
of the Republic and a special agent who shall be thoroughly famil-
iar with the locations and conditions of the land. Thus they may
collect and send at their own expense families of laborers and
artisans or mechanics who, under reciprocally advantageous con-
ditions, will be useful for settling up the unappropriated lands
and towns of mixed population which the general government may
decide to form.
These suggestions were prompted in me by the purest and most
sincere patriotism in behalf of the great interests of my country
and the preservation of its primordial rights. These, in my judg-
ment, are the only means of salvation. . .. Unless the first,
is adopted as a basis, which is to me the essential element of the
matter-that is, the separation of Texas from the state of Coahuila
and the subdivision of the country into territories-I am sorry to
say, Most Excellent Sir, appealing to the future to justify well
founded opinions, that all other provision will be futile and that
the loss of Texas will be inevitable. . .
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