The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, July 1919 - April, 1920 Page: 143
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Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin 143
dated 18th Feby and 11th and 14th April 1823. Here follows an
exact copy of the before mentioned letter.
Illustrious Ayto. Having completed the introduction and es-
tablishment of the three hundred families whom the Supreme Mex-
ican Govt. granted me authority to introduce and settle by the
decrees dated 18 Feby and 11th and 14th April 1823 issued under
the law of colonization of 4 Jany 1823 as will appear by the
annexed list of the names of the said families specifying the quan-
tity of land granted to each colonist and the date of the con-
cessions, which list is taken from the register of the said first
colony to which I refer-and the supreme Govt. of the State of
Coahuila and Texas having granted me authority to establish
other Colonists to the number of nine hundred families on the
vacant lands within the limits of my first colony it is of urgent
necessity that it should be determined whether all the Colonists
who received concessions in my said first colony have complied
with the conditions and requisites of the said law of 4th Jany
1823 and of said concession of the Supreme National Govt of
18 Feby. 1823. in order that it may be known what lands are
vacant and what are not, for the purpose of establishing fam-
ilies of my last contracts on these lands which are vacant, and
not to disturb those which are possessed by legal titles, for these
the govt commands in all the last contracts entered into with me
on colonization-Therefore I request that [p. 71] this illustrious
ayuntamto. will be pleased in use of the powers granted to the
Ayuntamto, by the 23d Article and other articles of the law of
colonization of 4th Jany. 1823. before cited and by the 26th
article and other articles of the law of colonization of the State
of the 24th March 1825, and in use of the general powers granted
by the laws to the Ayuntamtos. and of the knowledge which this
body has of all the inhabitants of its jurisdiction, and of what-
ever papers [sic] and appertains to the administration of the
laws and the security of property to examine the said list and
the concessions of lands granted in my said first colony and
determine definitively who of the Colonists of my said first
colony have complied and perfected their titles, and who have
abandoned their lands, and to say to me what lands granted in
my said first colony are vacant for a failure in the grantee to
comply with the conditions, so that by this measure the titles
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