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TEXAS.
[BOOK II.
growing sense of the importance of Texas and its
hostility to the Anglo-Americans. It has been
previously mentioned that, by the decree of the 6th
April, 1830, issued by the Vice-President Bustamente,
the Government was authorised to appoint
Commissioners to visit the colonies of the frontier
States, and, in the words of the third article, " to
contract with the Legislatures of said States for the
purchase, by the nation, of lands suitable for the
establishment of new colonies of Mexicans and
foreigners; to enter into such arrangements as they
may deem proper for the security of the Republic,
with the colonies already established; to watch over
the exact compliance of the contracts on the entrance
of new colonists; and to investigate how far
the contracts already made have been complied
with." By the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh
articles of the same decree, the Executive was empowered
to take possession of such lands as might
be suitable for military defences and new colonies,
indemnifying the State by deducting the amount
of their value from the debt due by it to the Federation;
to remove convicts from Vera Cruz and
other places to the new colonies, giving to each, at
the end of his term of service, a grant of land, with
necessary implements of husbandry, and means of
subsistence for one year; and to convey, free of
expense, Mexican families desirous to become colonists,
with the like provision that was to be appropriated
to discharged convicts. Texas alone could
have been contemplated by these enactments, it
being the only frontier State that had been selected
for colonization.
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/74/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.