[Bando] Don Felix Maria Calleja del Rey. Las Córtes generales y extraordinarias, considerando que la reduccion de los terrenos comunes á dominio particular, es una de las providencias que mas imperiosamente reclaman el bien de los pueblos y el fomento de la agricultura é industria; y queriendo al mismo tiempo proporcionar con esta clase de tierras un auxîlio á las necesidades públicas, un premio á los beneméritos defensores de la patria, y un socorro a los ciudadanos no poprietarios [sic], decretan .

Calleja, Felix Maria, Viceroy

Published by August 23, 1813, Mexico City, 1813

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Large folio sheet, 56 x 44 cm, on stamped paper, a royal proclamation from the King of Spain, here transmitted through the Viceroy of New Spain, Mexico, concerning the opening up royal and private lands that are not being used, i.e. farmed, or land that is held in common by a community, to private ownership. This was an effort to foment economic development, but more urgently pehaps to enrich the chronicaly overextended royal treasury in its struggles to resist Napoleon on its own soil, i.e. Spain. The proclamation was issued in the midst of the Mexican struggle for independence: it covers all the overseas possessions of Spain. Calleja was the next to last Viceroy of New Spain. Only 1 copy is listed on OCLC, at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. A quite rare bando, folded but in excellent condition, with the rubric of Calleja himself and the signature of his secretary.

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• Title: [Bando] Don Felix Maria Calleja del Rey. Las Córtes generales y extraordinarias, considerando que la reduccion de los terrenos comunes á dominio particular, es una de las providencias que mas imperiosamente reclaman el bien de los pueblos y el fomento de la agricultura é industria; y queriendo al mismo tiempo proporcionar con esta clase de tierras un auxîlio á las necesidades públicas, un premio á los beneméritos defensores de la patria, y un socorro a los ciudadanos no poprietarios [sic], ...
• Publisher: August 23, 1813, Mexico City
• Publication Date: 1813