Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-25
LAw oF FIBRrARY 1S5G.

Minister c: Fomento Colonization In. dustry and Commerce of the Republic 1 of Mexico.
 SECTION ? Tho Exmo. Sr., President Substitute of the Republic has deiyned Co direct tO me tho following decree:
 The citizen Igntclo Comonfort, Presi- dent Substitute of the Mexican Repub- he, to the inhabitants thereof. Know ] That III the exeIcise of the authority ceded me by the plan proclaimed in Ayutla, and refor med in Acapulco. I | have thought well to decree the follow | ing:
 ARTICLE l. The foreigners. inhlbit- | tants and residents in the Republic may acquire and possess rural and sub | urban or town property, including m-nes | or all classes of me tals and stone coal, be 1t by purchase, adjudication, denun- | citation or whateve- ti1le Of dominion established by the common laws or min ing ordinances.
 ART. 2. No foreigner can, without previous permission of the supreme government, acquire real estate (bienes ralces) Tn the frontier States and Terri torres within twenty leagues of the iron tier line.
 ART. 5. The foreigners who design obtaining the permission mentioned in the preceding article ought to direct 1 their solicitations to the Minister of tomento, that on sight thereof, and on information of the Governor of the re- spective State or Territory, he can de- termine its fitness.
 ART. l. In consistency with this law. the acquisitions that foreigners wish to make ot properties O. of land in the vi clnIty of towns upon which to build, they will enjoy as actual tenants or rent ors the rights of such circumstances and conditions being equal
 ART. ,. The fOreIg ,ers that by virtue or thls law acquire EGded property re- man subject in all its relations to them tO the dispositions they find dictated, or that may be dictated, U-pn translation, use and conservation Df the same prop critics m the Republic, such as to pay all classes of lmposts without alleging at any time the rights O. foreigners in re- spect to those points.
 ART. 6. Consequently, all questions relating to such properties that may arse will be ventilated in the tribunals of the Republic and in conformity with its laws, excluding fore gn intervention, whatever it may be-
 ART. '. The foreign ers that acquire rural or suburban pror, rites or mines in conformity with this law are obliged tC render armed service for the protection of the property and conservation of or der Ill the towns where -hey are settled: outside of such cases such service can not be exacted.
 ART. B That the foreigners that have acquired property in tie Republic can become citizens there0i, 1t is enough that this circumstance | e made evident before the political authority lPrefectol of the place where he re sides. This ev- idence being presented 70 the Minister of Relations with the relative solicitude. there will be issued thei- certificates of citizenship.
 As such ordered pril ted, published and circulated, that it may be fulfilled
 Done in the National Palace of Mex leo, February l, 1856.
 IGNACIc CoMONFoRT.
 Al O.: MANUEL SuICFo.
 1 communicate to you for your intelli- geuce and the consequent ends.
 God and Liberty.
 Mexico, February ], 1S:5.
 SILICEO.