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Coahuila y Tejas Decree No. 164 Creating the District of Nacogdoches. ...
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Coahuila y Tejas Decree No. 164 Creating the District of Nacogdoches. Two pages, 5.75" x 8", Leona Vicario; January 31, 1831.A printed broadside addressed in manuscript to the alcalde of Santa Rosa notifying inhabitants of the state that the Department of Béxar has been divided in two and establishing the District of Nacogdoches.
Translated into English, the decree reads in part, "considering the inconveniences experienced in the economic and political Administration of the Department of Tejas because it is comprised of one extensive territory and is largely populated by foreigners widely dispersed throughout the region... the following is decreed: the department of Bejar is divided into two part, established by the dividing line that begins in Bolibar [Bolivar], Galbeston [Galveston] Bay, going North and West halfway between the San Jacinto and Trinidad Rivers, following the heights that divide the waters of the said rivers until the head of the San Jacinto, from there following the heights that separate the Brazos and Trinidad Rivers until the head of the latter, and ending to the north of the birth of the Trinidad in the red River Natchitochis [Nacogdoches]. José Maria Viesca, the governor of Coahuila y Tejas, and Santiago del Valle, a state official, sign with their rubrics at the conclusion. Housed in a custom quarter leather and marble board case.
In this important document to Texas history, Congress takes note of the difficulties experienced in the administration of so extensive a territory as Texas, with its thinly settled population of foreign colonists, and decrees a division which is carefully bounded in the first article. The Department of Nacogdoches is set up, with the capital at the town of that name, and provisions for its administration are made.
Streeter writes, "Though Decree 164 was promulgated January 31, 1841, no political chief had been appointed when on May 6, 1833, Decree 243 authorized the appointment to that office of a person not a resident of the new district."
Condition: Light spot of foxing lower right corner recto. Pen and pencil notations to the top margin recto, with a red wax pencil mark in the left margin.
References: Eberstadt, Texas 162:248; Kimball 164, p. 171; Streeter 768.
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