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Secretaria de Guerra y Marina... El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. ... Art. 1o. A los Prisioneros Hechos en la Guerra de Tejas a la Fecha de la Publication de Este Decreto, Que Hubieren Incurrido en la Pena Capital Segun las Leyes... [caption title and first line of text]

Mexico City: April 14, 1836. Printed broadsheet, with integral blank. Folio. A handful of old tape stains and one small marginal ink burn, slight discoloration and small hole in lower margin, not affecting text. Very good. Item #2348

This extraordinary decree, issued thirty-nine days after the fall of the Alamo, prints twelve articles regarding Mexican treatment of Texian prisoners during the Texas Revolution. Under this decree, the leaders of the Texian revolt were subject to the death penalty, but soldiers and other rebels who surrendered within fifteen days could be spared death by lifetime banishment from Texas. The decree is signed in type by José Justo Corro as president and José María de Tornel y Mendívil as Secretary of War, with Tornel's manuscript paraph.

"This decree was passed in the flush of the victory at the Alamo, applied to those rebellious Texans who surrendered within fifteen days or such greater or lesser time as Santa Anna might fix, and gave Santa Anna the right to fix the times and places of embarkation of those banished. Those not already subject to the death penalty might be punished by ten years imprisonment in interior regions of the Mexican republic, distant at least 70 leagues from the coast and the land frontiers" - Streeter.

Thomas W. Streeter listed just one known copy - his own - in his Bibliography of Texas. OCLC reports only three copies, at Yale, Baylor, and Texas A&M.
Streeter Sale 347. Streeter Texas 876. Dublan 1724.

Price: $7,500.00