Abolition Of Slavery In M...
TIie Supreme Executive Poder baps.publiohed the fol- loving deereeY-,.; -.c, -- The Supreme Exec"ifivi Power ti-med provisionally by the Sove- -reign General Constituent Congrea;, to all tsose who shaU see or liear these.presents,,declares... 1. That there shallbe'for everabolished in the territory of the Unitedl Mlexican States tbe tjade and traffic in slaves, coming from any Power, and under any flag.. "2. The slaves who mav be Introduced against the tenour of the foregoing article,shalf befree ipsjofacto by their trratitig the Mexican territory. 3. Every ship, whether national or foreign, in whicl slaves are trarisported or introduced into the Mlexican territory, shall be irreco- verably confiscated, with the renmainder of its cargo; and the pro- pTietor and the purehaser, the captain, the mnrster, anti the pilot, shall siifer ten year' imptironment. "4. This law slial tsae eflect from tihe day of its publication; but in as tar as regards the penalties prescribed in the foregoing article, they shall not take efFect till six monthls afterwvards with re- spect to the coloaist, who, in virtue of the low of the 14th of Octo. ber last rcapecting the colonization of the Istlhmus of Huazaco. hualcos, land slaves with the object of initrodniing them into the Mexican territory. 0 The Sapreine Executive Powerlisall consider this as understood, and shall arrange what is necessary to its execution, causing it to be printed, published, and circulated. TGNACIO SALDIVAR, Presleient. DEMETRIO DPI, CASTELLO, Secretary. "JOSE l(4,NACI10 GONZALEZ CORAALMITRO, Sec. Mllexico, July 13, 182., "We thereft)re comnmand all tribunials, courts of justice, cl iefs, governors, and otber autirlities, civil, miilitary, and ecclesiastical, of whatever ciass or tignity; that they cause to be kept, utilfilled, aild executeti, the present decree In all its parts. (iLUADALLUPE VICTORIA, President. MAllCIUElL DOM INGUEZ. s t ICENTE GUERRERO. 'A Alexic6, July 14, 1824." ABOLITION OF SLAT ERY IN MEXICO.