The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 162
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
government. Their object will be to find the safest and most
efficient means for gathering honest, healthy and industrious
families and to furnish them with resources for their free passage
to the points to which, in conformity with the regulations of the
government, they are destined. They will likewise furnish them
with certain medical aid, the necessary utensils for domestic and
farming use, and perhaps the simplest requisites for the education
of their children. In order to stimulate these societies and to
make some arrangement with them to bind them, the government,
as a recompense for the services it will expect from them, will cede
to them in ownership, a fifth part of the lands which they colonize
by their own efforts, distributing the population at the rate of ten
families to a square league or in the manner which may be con-
sidered most expedient. The society or its individual members
might be allowed to distribute individually or collectively the land
ceded, and likewise to sell it or cultivate it to their own advantage
in conformity with the national laws.
The government will formally bind itself to the societies to
protect the families which they send out and to receive them in
temporary shelters which will protect them from the weather until
they are able to build their houses on the lots that are assigned
such families as, of their own accord or because of their offices,
wish to become citizens in settlements. It will bind itself to dis-
tribute to them the land which the law or the ordinance designates,
in view of the number of their children, giving possession and title;
to give them lumber in order that they may erect temporary
homes; to maintain them for a year by a ration of supplies of first
necessity; to supply them with seed for planting and with do-
mestic animals for breeding purposes; to bear the expenses of their
religious instruction and of their ministers, exempting them for
ten years from the payment of tithes and offerings of the first
fruits and from all money contributions; and finally to grant them
certain political rights, like that of citizenship and others in the
event of their having a regular house or any public establishment
whatsoever, requiring of them only the oath to preserve the con-
stitution, to obey the laws and to defend the independence and in-
tegrity of the territory of the Republic.
Paris, London, and other capitals of Europe have gathered with-
in their bounds a great number of rich farseeing, and philan-162
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929, periodical, 1929; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101089/m1/166/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.