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Laws and Decrees of Coahuila and Texas.
107
DECREE No. 64.
DECREE No. 65.
(217)
Executive DEPARTMENT of the State )
of Coahuila and Texas. f
The Governor of the State of Coahuila and Texas to all the inhabit-
ants thereof: Be it known, that the Congress of said State has decreed
as follows:
workshops for seperating the metal, is hereby prolonged them another
year.
For its fulfilment, the Governor of the State shall cause it to be printed,
published, and circulated.
Given at the city of Leona Vicario on the 22d of September, 1828.
JOSE I. SANCHES, President,
JOSE M. ARTIA, D. S.
MIGUEL ARCINEAGA, D. S.
The Congress of the State of Coahuila and Texas has thought proper
to decree:
Art. 1. All persons under criminal suit for simple homicide, where
the prosecution is not urged by a third person, shall be set at liberty, and
where it is, this pardon shall be understood only with respect to corporal
punishment.
Art. 2. Those whose crime, according to the aggregate of the pre-
paratory proceedings after the legal evidence is rendered, is not clearly
shewn, shall likewise be set at liberty.
Art. 3. Those accused of treason, of any kind of sacrilege, revolu-
tionary persons under any pretence, and those sentenced to mere pecu-
niary penalties to indemnify a third person, shall be excluded from this
pardon.
Art. 4. This pardon shall cease in thirty days from the publication
of this law in the respective district capitals.
The Congress of the State of Coahuila and Texas, in fulfilment of the
provision of article 78 of the Constitution, has thought proper to de-
cree as follows:
Art. 1. The city of Monclova is hereby declared the capital of the
State of Coahuila and Texas.
Art. 2. The Executive shall make proper provision for the future
Congress to meet in the capital.
For its fulfilment, the Governor of the State shall cause it to be printed,
published, and circulated.
Given at the city of Leona Vicario on the 25th of September, 1828.
[The same Signers.]
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