Later, Mexico attempted to redress the balance by inviting "all persons of the Republic to colonize in Texas, offering to transport them at the expense of the Treasury," to give them tools, and to maintain them for the first year, but the proposal did not attract popular support.[1]
General colonization schemes continued to hold the attention of the government in spite of the fear of what was going on in the north. Extraordinary inducements were offered to encourage settlement and guarantees of protection for person and property were freely given.[2] The general policy adopted was well outlined in the decree of March 11, 1842, issued by that adventurer-
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- ↑ Manuel Siliceo, op cit., p. 43 et seq., republished in part in Manero, op cit. This report explains in detail the failure of various colonization schemes.
- ↑ In Papers Relating to Foreign Relations of the United States, 1888, vol. 2, p. 1167 et seq., are cited the following decrees granting protection to foreigners quoted from Legislación Mexicana, o sea coleccion completa de las leyes, decretos y circulares que se han expedido desde la consumacion de la independencia. This volume contains the laws in force at the time of publication and, therefore, does not show all the legislation which had been passed on the subject.
Decree of October 7, 1823, suspending discriminations of the laws of the Indies against foreigners.
Law of Colonization of August 18, 1824.
Decree of September 6, 1833, for protection of persons and property of foreigners.
Decree of March 11, 1842, declared still in force January 30,
zacion, Mexico, 1878, pp. 16-18, and Manuel Siliceo, First Memorial of the Minister of Fomento, February 16, 1857, p. 43 et seq. See also the Memoria of Jose Maria Lafragua to the Congress, December 14, 1846, in the same volume, p. 22.
