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and the one which was drawn from it was to be deputy for that
province to the Cortes. If any question should arise, the viceroy or
captain-general of the province in America was immediately and
absolutely to determine the issue. After the election the municipal
council was to certify the election of its representative and give
him written instructions on matters which he should present to
the congressional body. The electing municipal council was to
fix the traveling expenses of the deputy as well as his per diem,
but it was recommended that the per diem be no more than six
pesos fuertes daily, the amount already specified for deputies in
the Spanish peninsula.12
Sent to the overseas provinces on February 22, 181o, this decree
was received in Mexico City about the middle of May, for the
audiencia of Mexico published it on May 16 and ordered the
municipal councils of the capitals of the provinces of Puebla,
Veracruz, Yucatan, Oaxaca, MichoacAn, Tabasco, Queretaro,
Tlaxcala, Nuevo Le6n, Nuevo Santander, Guanajuato, San Luis
Potosi, Guadalajara, and Zacatecas to proceed at once to hold the
elections.'3 The fact that the provinces of Coahuila, Texas, Chi-
huahua, Durango, California, Sinaloa, New Mexico, and Sonora
were not listed by the audiencia of Mexico has led some to believe
that they were not entitled to representation. But such was not
the case. At this date those provinces were not subject to the
Viceroyalty of New Spain nor to the audiencia of Mexico City.
Instead they were subject directly to Spain through the com-
mandant general of the Interior Provinces with headquarters at
Chihuahua and to the audiencia of Guadalajara, both of whom
received their instructions directly from Spain.
Thus Nemesio Salcedo, commandant general of the Interior
Provinces, sent on May 28, 181o, printed copies of the February
14 decree to the commanding officers of the provinces of Texas,
Coahuila, and others, and ordered them to proceed at once with
the elections.' Brigadier General Bernardo Bonavia was second
12Gaceta del Gobierno de Mdxico, I, 419-420o; Diario de Mdxico, XI, 554-555;
Decree of February 14, 18io (Bexar Archives, University of Texas Library).
IsLa Real Audiencia de esta capital gobernadora del Reyno de Nueva Espaia,
May 16, 181o, reprinted in Gaceta del Gobierno de Mdxico, I, 420. This broadside
was signed in Mexico by Pedro Catani, Guillermo de Aguirre, and Tomis Gonzilez
Calder6n.
14Nemesio Salcedo to Bernardo Bonavia, Chihuahua, May 28, 1810o (MS., Bexar
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