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mitted to the person chosen to represent New Spain.5 He also
sent Salcedo's communication of May 12, 1809, on the election
of a representative to the governing junta and a copy of the decree
to the various towns of the province of Texas for publication.6
The elections did take place elsewhere, and on October 4, 1809,
in Mexico City at the final selection, Miguel Lardiz~bal y Uribe,
a native of Tlaxcala, Mexico, was chosen the representative of
New Spain to the Supreme Governing Junta.7 That Junta set up
a Regency, which was installed on January 31, 1810o, and on Feb-
ruary 4, 1810, it by decree named Miguel Lardiztbal y Uribe
representative in it of the Americas."
One of the first acts of the newly established Regency was to
add the final touches to the call for the meeting of the Spanish
Cortes (or congress) . Various measures in that direction had been
made earlier. The Central Governing Junta on May 22, 1809, had
proclaimed the establishment of the old form of representation,
called for the Cortes to meet in the following year, and stated
that it would begin study at once on the number of deputies to
be called, the mode of election, and the like.9 The Junta had
5Manuel de Salcedo to Nemesio Salcedo, Bjar, June 1, 18o09 (MS., Archivo
General de Historia del Estado de Coahuila, Saltillo).
eSpain, Suprema Junta Central de Sevilla, Decree of January 22, 18o09 (MSS.,
Nacogdoches Archives, Archives Division, Texas State Library). Included with the
copy are manuscript annotations giving opinion rendered by Garibay's legal ad-
visers and Salcedo's attorney and the dates of receipt and promulgation of the
document in Nacogdoches and other Texas points.
7Gazeta de Mdxico, XVI, 901; Diario de Mdxico, XI, 399. The Diario de Mdxico
stated that Lardizdbal had graduated from the College of San Ildefonso, the
Seminary of San Juan of Puebla, and the University of Valladolid in Spain, had
entered diplomatic service and served with the Count of Aranda in France and
later under the Count of Floridablanca in the Ministry of State of Spain.
Before the election of Lardizibal y Uribe, the Central Governing Junta of Seville
issued a decree on June 25, 1809, ordering obedience to its decree calling for the
establishment of the Supreme Governing Junta of Spain and the Indies, and on
September 28, 18o9, added a postscript announcing the names of the members of
the Junta for the peninsula. A copy of this four-page printed decree signed at
Seville on June 25, 1809, by the Marques de Astorga and addressed to Benito
Ram6n de Hermida is in the Bexar Archives at the University of Texas.
8Bernardo Bonavia to Nemesio Salcedo, Bexar, July 11, 1810o (MSS., Bexar
Archives, University of Texas Library). The Bexar Archives also contain a copy of
the printed decree issued on February 9, 18io, on the Island of Le6n. Signatures
on the decree show that it was proclaimed in La Bahia on July 17; Nacogdoches,
on August 19; Trinidad, on August 28; and Atascosito, on September 12, 18io.
9Spain, Junta Suprema Gubernativa del Reyno, Decreto del 22 de mayo de 1809.
Alamin, Historia de Mefico, I, 272. The decree was signed by the Marques de
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