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Texas Failure to Send a Deputy to the Spanish Cortes 17
issued, on October 28, 18o0g, a decree convoking a Cortes to open
on the Island of Le6n on March 1, 181o, and fixed the date of
election of deputies. The decree had been sent to the overseas
provinces but contained no provision for the elections to be held
in those provinces. It had stated that provision for the overseas
provinces would come later.1 When the Junta had been forced
to abandon Seville by the approach of the invading French armies
into Andalucia, it had issued a decree on January 13, 1810, stating
that it would reassemble on the Island of Le6n, where it trans-
ferred its powers to the Regency. The decree forming the Regency
was accompanied by instructions for the convoking of the Cortes
on the Island of Le6n on March i, as had been previously an-
nounced. In order that America would be represented in this
special session of the Cortes, that decree provided for the election
of twenty-six natives of the Spanish American colonies resident
at that time in Spain to serve until regularly elected deputies
could be chosen.1 Not until February 14, 18 o, did the Regency
issue a decree addressed to the overseas provinces, calling for the
election of deputies, who upon certification of their powers were
to proceed directly to the Island of Le6n to await the opening of
the Cortes.
This decree stated that the viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru,
Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires and the captaincy-generals of Puerto
Rico, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Guatemala, the Interior Provinces,
Venezuela, Chile, and the Philippines should have representa-
tion in the Cortes. One deputy for each province was to be elected
by the municipal council of its capital. First, three individuals,
natives of the province and endowed with integrity, talent, and
education were to be named by the members of the municipal
council. Then all three names were to be put into a container
Astorga, president, and ordered circulated and published at Seville, on May 2a,
18o09, by Martin de Garay, secretary.
loGaceta del Gobierno de Mdxico, I, 31-38, reprinted from the Gazeta del gobierno
of Spain of November 4, 18o9. Apparently this decree was not officially released
to the overseas provinces until later. A printed copy of it, signed by Pedro de
Rivero on January 14, 181o, was circulated in Texas in May-July, 181o. It bears
the signatures of the commanding officers of Bexar, May s7; La Bahia, June 12;
Nacogdoches, June 24; and Atascosito, July 6, 181o.
11Decree of January 29, 18io, in Gaceta de Mexico, I, 217-218; and Modesto de
la Fuente, Historia General de Espaia (6 vols.; Barcelona, 1877-1882), V, 117-118.
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