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amount remitted to the mint and of the balance resulting in favour of the miners.

5th. That the foregoing articles be substituted for the 10th, and 11th articles of the 20th May, 1826.

Mexico, 15th September, A. D., 1829.

LAW.

LORENZO DE ZAVALA.

May 12th, 1838.

A reward to persons who during the period named shall import in national or neutral vessels quicksilver not French property.

1. During the blockade and six months thereafter, persons who shall import quicksilver in neutral or national vessels, shall receive a premium of five dollars for each quintal introduced by the ports or frontiers of the republic, which shall be credited at the respective custom houses, in account of duties there collected.

2. If the quicksilver which is introduced into the ports of the republic be French property, it shall not be included in the provisions of the previous article, and the same shall besides be subjected to the penalty of forfeiture.

DECREE.

"Diario del Gobierno."-(Vol. 22, No. 2426, p. 173.)

Mexico, February, 18th, 1842, Department of justice and public instruction. His Excellency the provisional president has been pleased to issue the following decree:

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, general of division benemérito of the country, and provisional president of the republic of Mexico, to the inhabitants thereof. Know ye: That the piety fund of California being a matter of general interest, and all the objects to which it is destined being truly national, and should therefore be under the immediate care and management of the supreme government, as it has formerly been, I have thought proper to decree:

Art. 1. The 6th article of the decree of the 19th September 1836, whereby the government is deprived of the management of the piety fund of the Californias, and the same placed at the disposition of the reverend bishop of that new diocese, is hereby repealed.

Art. 2. Consequently the management and disposition of the property shall return to and be under the care of the supreme national government, in the manner and on the terms fitted to give effect to the object proposed by the donation-the civilization and conversion of the barbarians.

Wherefore I command that the same be printed, published, and carried into effect.

Palace of the national government, Mexico, February 8, 1842.

ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA,
CRISPINIANO, of Castile,

Minister of Justice and Public Instruction

And I communicate it to you for your information and consequent action. God and Liberty.-Mexico, February 8, 1842. Castello.

DECREE.

"Diario del Gobierno." (Vol. XXIV. No. 2687, p. 361.

Mexico, October 31st, 1842.

Department of Justice and Public Instruction.

His Excellency the provisional president of the Mexican Republic, has been pleased to issue the following decree:

"Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, general of division, benemérito of the country and provisional president of the Mexican Republic, to the inhabitants thereof. Know ye: That having had in consideration that the decree of the 8th of February of the present year, which provided that the safe keeping and administration of the (piadoso) piety fund of the Californias should be restored to and continue in charge of the supreme government, as was the case formerly, directed that the benefits and national objects proposed by the founders should be enjoyed with all exactitude, without the slightest loss to the property destined to this purpose; and considering also, that this can only be accomplished by converting the same property into capital and putting it out to rent under due security, so as thus to avoid the expenses of administration and any others that may arise; exercising the powers conceded to me by the seventh of the bases accorded in Tacubaya, and sanctioned by the nation, I have thought proper to decree as follows:

1. The country and town estates, the active credits and other property belonging to the piety fund of the Californias, are incorporated into the national treasury.

2. The Department of the Treasury will proceed to sell the estates and other property belonging to the piety fund of California, as the capital which they represent at six per cent for their annual product, and the public treasury will borrow at the rate of the same 6 per 100 the total proceeds arising from these transfers.

3. The revenue from tobacco remains hypothecated especially for the payment of the revenue, corresponding to the capital of the aforesaid fund of California, and the administration of this branch will deliver the sums neces

sary to carry into effect the objects to which the same fund is destined, without any deduction for expenses of administration or any others.

Wherefore, I order the same to be printed, published, circulated and carried into full effect.

National Palace of the Government, Mexico, 24th October, 1842.

ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
PEDRO VELEZ,

Minister of Justice and Public Instruction.

And I communicate the same to you for your information and consequent

action.

God and Liberty. Mexico, October 24, 1842.

VELEZ.

"Diario Del Gobierno."-(Vol. XXIV. No. 2730, page 537-8.)

November 13th, 1842.

Government of the Department of Mexico.

EDICT.

Citizen Luis Gonzaga Vieyra, Brevet Brigadier General and Governor of the Department of Mexico.

By the department of war and navy, under date of the 2d. instant, the following decree has been communicated to me.

His Excellency the substitute President has been pleased to issue the following decree.

"Nicholas Bravo, general of division, benemérito of the country and substitute president of the Mexican Republic, to the inhabitants thereof, Know ye That having in consideration the necessity, as well as at the same time the inportance of encouraging the interesting branch of mining and remembering that although many regulations are in existence having relation to this public benefit, they have either fallen into disuse or have been entirely forgotten, without dilating upon the very great importance, principally to the Republic, of preserving one of the most necessary elements of its prosperity and greatness, I have thought proper to grant in the exercise of powers conceded by the seventh of the bases adopted in Jacubaya, and attested by the representatives of the Department, the following Regulations:

Regulation for the board of encouragement and management of the Mining
Corporation.
TITLE I.

Of the board of encouragement and improvement of the mining corporation, its formation, renewal and attributes.

ART. 1st. There shall be established a Board which shall direct the en

couragement of mining. It shall be composed of an attorney of the miners, another of the creditors of the fund instituted, and of a person commissioned by the Supreme Government. Their mode of election and powers will be detailed in the following articles.

ART. 2. The presidency of this board shall be held by turns by the three persons who compose it, alternating every year. The first year, the person commissioned by the Supreme Government shall be the president.

ART. 3. As soon as the present decree is published, the Supreme Government and the creditors of the funds of the establishment, shall proceed to appoint their respective Commissioners, and the miners residing in this Capital shall also on their part, appoint a commissioner ad interim.

ART. 4. The Governor of the department of Mexico shall call together and preside over the creditors and miners in separate meetings, in order that each class may appoint their respective commissioner conforming in voting to the existing laws and those in force in the present establishment.

ART. 5. When the board is formed, it shall require from the individuals who may withdraw the delivery by formal and exact inventory of whatsoever may appertain to the establishment, as also the surrender of the accounts for the whole time which has elapsed since the last were presented, and it will take care the same be laid before the tribunal of revision of ac counts within the space of three months. It will hold its session in the buildings of the same establishment, and there also shall its office be located.

ART. 6. Three months after the publication of the present decree, the special attornies who may have been appointed in the mining districts by the meetings of minors, shall meet in this capital, under the presidency of the governor of the department, in order to elect the person who is to represent them in the board of encouragement, which election being completed, and the proprietary commissioner being put in possession, the one appointed ad interim shall retire. Three substitutes shall also be elected, who as well as the commissioner must be miners or suppliers of mines, (aviadores) who shall be substitutes for the proprietors in the order of their appointment, and shall also act as advisers in cases in which the board may desire to hear their opinion. If from any places the special attornies of the meetings cannot come, on account of their being very remote, or their inability to bear the expense of travelling and staying in Mexico, it will be sufficient that the meetings at the localities of mines send authority and instructions to a person in whom they have confidence, and who resides in this capital.

ART. 7. On the 31st of December 1844 this Board of Miners shall be renewed, in order to make a similar election, in the same manner as the creditors shall do, in regard to their attornies, and both shall have power to reelect the persons whose terms may expire, the renewal taking place successively every three years.

ART. 8. Each of the members of this board shall enjoy an annual salary

of $3000, which shall be paid out of the fund which this law establishes, and a half salary shall be paid to the substitutes when they enter upon duty through any legal impediment to the proprietor, and whenever the duty exceeds fifteen days.

ART. 9. The Board shall propose the reforms it may deem proper in the secretary's and other offices of the establishment. In the regulation of which mention will be made in the next article, the salary of all the persons whom it shall consider necessary for the office to employ shall be fixed, and in the appointment, under equal circumstances, preference shall be given to those retiring, who may receive a salary from the treasury.

ART. 10. The attributes of this Board shall be those which include an economical and faithful management of the funds mentioned in the present decree, in conformity with the regulations which it shall draw up and submit to the supreme government for its approval. In this regulation shall be de cided:

1st. The manner in which quicksilver shall be obtained, distributed and sold, to the workers of metals, determining the cases and mode in which the working of quicksilver mines in the Republic is to be encouraged by rewards, or in any other way promoted.

2d. Everything relating to the redemption of the debt of the subscribed fund, according to what may be decreed in the item relating thereto.

3d. The government and direction of the Board itself: and finally, it shall be an attribute and object of its most particular solicitude, to promote the encouragement of the branch, by its funds and by its school.

ART. 11. The Board, after hearing the director and professors of the school, shall submit to the Supreme Government for its approval the reforms it may think necessary in the ordinances of the said establishment.

ART. 12. The Board, in conjunction with the advisers, shall submit to the Supreme Government a ternary list for the appointment of director of the school, the individuals named in the ternary list to have the qualifications detailed in Art. 13. of title 1. of the ordinances of mining; it being understood that the Supreme Government shall be empowered to return the ternary list in order that a new one may be made, should it think proper so to do, and the President of the Board having in the votings the casting vote.

ART. 13. In the charge of the board of encouragement shall be all the property which may produce the funds mentioned in this law; that arising from the quicksilver which may be distributed, and the stock of quicksilver itself. The responsibility for everything comprised in the management, preservation and safe keeping, shall be jointly in the members of the Board. That of the management and distribution shall be confided to an auditor treasurer, whom the Supreme Government shall appoint on the submission of a ternary list by the board, at a salary which shall be fixed in the regula tions, and shall be paid out of the funds of the establishment, he giving the

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