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CTIAP. VIII.]
ALMONTE S REPORT.
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expire during the present year. The Supreme Government,
if at all anxious to do away with a system
of jobbing so ruinous to the lands of the nation,
at the hands of a few Mexicans and foreigners,
ought, without loss of time, to adopt means to obviate
the confusion daily arising out of contracts
with the speculators, which create a feeling of disgust
amlong the colonists, who are dissatisfied with
the monopoly enjoyed by companies or contractors
that have acquired the lands with the sole object of
speculating in them.
" Tlle settlements of this district have not prospered,
because speculators have not fulfilled their
contracts, and the scattered population is composed
of individuals who have obtained one or more
leagues of land from the State, and of others who,
in virtue of the law of colonization inviting
strangers, have established themselves wherever it
appeared most convenient. But the latter have not
even the titles to their properties, which it would
be only fair to extend for them, in order to relieve
them from that cruel state of uncertainty in which
some have been placed for several years, as to whether
they appertain to the United States or to
Mexico. And as these colonists have emigrated at
their own expense, it seems just that the contractors
on whose lands they have settled, and who were not
instrumental to the introduction of their families,
should not receive the premium allowed by law.
In stipulating with those contractors (empresarios)
both the General and State Government have
hitherto acted with too much negligence, and it
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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/m1/83/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.