THE TEXAS REVOLUTION - 1836

[Texas Revolution] El C. Valentin Canalizo, General de Brigada y Gobernador del Departamento de México. Por la Secretaria de Guerra y Marina se me ha dirijido con fecha 14 del actual el decreto siguiente ... Toluca: [No publication information] 1836. Broadside printed letterpress on laid paper. 8 ½ x 12 ¼ inches. Dated and type-signed: 23 de Abril de 1836. Valentin Canalizo as Governor of the State of Mexico and Joaquin Noriega, as secretary.

OCLC shows no holdings for this printing. See Streeter, Texas 876, for the April 14th printing of the Congressional Decree with three holdings (Yale; Baylor & TAMU). This printing adds seven additional articles by Governor Canalizo regarding implementation of the decree. Substituting perpetual banishment for the death penalty in the case of certain Texan prisoners of war, but not members of the government and leaders of the revolution. “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 is Santa Ana made fix, and gave Santa Ana 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 10 years imprisonment in interior regions of the Mexican, Republic, distant, at least 70 leagues from the coast, and the land frontiers. "--Streeter, Texas 876. Vg cond.