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[Message from Viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca]

Description: Decree from Viceroy de Apodaca saying that poor people should be given facilities to judicial procedures. According to the document this is a copy made in Mexico in November of 1818, the original having been made in May of 1818.
Date: November 24, 1818
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Petition for building a school for the poor]

Description: The citizens of Northumberland County agree to a charter allowing another academy of the same name within the same county for the poor. The funding is discussed and the land that was for public use will be used. Petitioners are against the school being built with public funds and believe that the poor should be paying for their school. The petitioners believe that in building the school it would go against the legislation of the county. The author gives examples of cases that disprove the peti… more
Date: January 12, 1818
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Regulations from José Francisco de la Garza]

Description: Regulations from José Francisco de la Garza concerning clandestine sale of foods; there are signatures from a few individuals at the bottom of the text. The document is folded in half horizontally, and has a piece of tape holding it together on the back of the paper.
Date: 1818-12~
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Transcript of Letter from Emily Austin Bryan to James Bryan, November 25, 1818]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Emily Austin Bryan to James Bryan, on November 25, 1818, informing him of her decision to stay at her father's house until the spring. She also discusses the transportation of food by boat, Bryan's plan to sell their horses, the chance that he may have been cheated by a colleague, and the health of their children.
Date: November 25, 1818
Creator: Perry, Emily Austin Bryan
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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