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Vidaurii, Francisco re: selling public lands at auction

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06392 Author/Creator: Vidaurii, Francisco Place Written: Coahuila and Texas Type: Manuscript document Date: 1834/03/26 Pagination: 11 p. 25.4 x 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Bound with white ribbon at top. "Supreme Court of the free states of Coahuila and Texas. The Governor of the State of Coahulia, to all its inhabitants known: that the Congress of this state have decided as follows... the vacant lands of the state, shall be sold at a public sale." Contemporary copy, English translation of decree making public lands available.

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