Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-06-09
VALUABLE MODERATION
TO ALL AMERICANS OWNING LAND
 IN IEXICO.
The Law on the Subject Never Before
 Published Here.
LEI Paso Tnb.no.I

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 The following information has nsvei before been published in En accessible form, and will be found valuable to 2. owning or intending Co own real est -i, m the neighboriDG republic.
 The original MeSIcsn statute, dGtet March N, lS42, and translated as li;ef ally as correctness will allow, read 0. follows:
 Article 1. Foreigners located and res ident in tho republic may acquire and possess city (urbaD) and rural propertie. 1 by purchase, adjudication, denuncistior | (Ot the government or by any othel title established by tine lave.
 Art. 2 They can acquire slso prep erty in mines of gold, silver, copper quicksilver, Iron and coal, of which they were the discover rs, with the provisions of the system of that department.
 Art. g. No individual foreigner shal be able to acquire more than two Im- proved real estate properties in the same state without license of the su. preme government, and only under the boundaries which they (the ststes) now have in independence one of the other
 Art. 4. In the acquisition of improved urban real estate in the cilies. town and villages, as nlso of the lands adjoining them, on which they wish to construct their improvements, the renter shall have the preference. other circumstsn- ces and conditions being equal.
 Art. ,. The foreigners who h virtue of this law acquire property remain hb' solutely subject in regard tO 1t the lsSs ID force or which rule in the republic over the transfer Conveyance. use, pres | ervation aud psy nent of taxes, wItlou; beIug able % set up any TigEs of being foreigners in regard to those points. Art. 6. In consequence sll questions of this nature which may arise shall be decided b. the ordinary and common methods of the national laws with the exclusion of all other intervention what ever that may be.
 Art. 2. Foreigners who acquire prop critics. urban, rulrs. or ID mines. and the | foreigners who work ID them ss servants operatives or jou.neymeu are not oblig- ed to lend the service of arms (miliisryl unless it be that of police; but are obliged to satisfy the taxation which may have the military for its object.
 Art, 8. II the property-owniDR for eigner shall absent himself with his fam | ily for more than two yesTs without ob- taining permission from the government or If the property pass by inheritance or | auy other tlltle to the power of a person who is not resident of the republic, be or she will be obliged 10 sell It within two years counted from the day oF which was accomplished the absence or the transfer of ownership, If 1t shall not l 1nwa gaNa unHar the Ia = | with all legGl fo'maliiies. shall be pro ceeded with, nad of the proceeds one | tenth shall 20 to ihe benefit of the de- nouaceT Gaiormerl and the other nine | ten.hs shell remain Tn secure deposit. | subject to the disposition of the owner. | The sale hall take glace always when II | shall be proven tha, Ihe owner of the | improved real estate resides outside of the repub,.c, and that he who is called the owner is only in place of the absent one.
 Art. 9. These dispositions do not en- brace the states bordering on the iron tier with other Iati0ns, ID respect 10 which there shall Os provided especial laws Of colonization, without which pro perty shall be acquired in them (the bor- der sta.es) by foTei guers, without SD c1- press permission the supreme govern msnI 0f the republic.
 Art. 10. In the states which are not border or frontier, and which have sec coast, foreigners cBn acquire rural pro perty only Bt distance of five leayCes from them (the sea cOssts.)
 Art. II, In order that foreigners who may have acquired property in the re- pubic may be able to be citizens IL shall suffice that they shall make 1t eviden. before the political authority of their place of residence that they have resided two years in the republic, and that they have conducted themselves properly. The record properly filled up after this manner shall be forwarded to the pro- per minister (secretery) ID order that he may deliver the letters of citizenship,
 Act. l2 Foreigners shall not be able ts acquire public lands in any of the states of the republic without contract ing for them with the government, winch holds this right in representation of the dominion of the Mexican nation.
 Another subsequent law of January 30, 1854, says:
 Art. 5. All the parts of the decree Of March IA. lS42- (the same heretofore quoted) respecting the acquisition oi real estate by foreigners, are declared to be in force, except in those cases in which any of therl may have been modified by trestIes.
 Art 10. The foreigners who reside i1 Mexican territory, provided that thef residence may have been for long tim, by establishing sn open or peopled house n well known, not secret Sy acquiring
 
 poses tor necessitstes) any residence whatever, for three years, shall be cons.- dered domiciled for all purposes ot the laws; but if they have no fixed residence. or have made no long stay in the country they shall be considered as transients.
 Art. F. The domiciled shall be sub feet, moreover, tO military service InI case of foreign var which may be with their respective governments snd to the payment of every class of contribution J extraordinary or personal, from whieL the transient people shall be exempt.
 Again on February l, 1856, the follow ing was enacted:
 Art. 1, Foreigners located and residenil in the republic msy acquire and possess rural and urban properties, ircludineI mines of all classes of metsls and of coal, whether 1t msy be by purchase, sd indication, denuncistion or any otheIl tItle of ownership established by thel common laws or by the rules and order, of the departments of mioes.
 Art. ?. No foreigner, without previousl permission from the supreme govern ment, can acquire real estate ID the fron-I tier states or territories, but at twentyl leagues (si1iy miles) distance from ths line of the frontier.
 Art. 8. Foreigners who desire 10 ob. tsin the permission spoken of ID the for mer article ought to direct their spplica- tions to the Minister of the Interior. whcl in view of It (the sppliostionl and of the information of the government of theI respective state or territory, may resolye what is proper e do.
 And finally President BenitO Jusrezl promulgated on July 22, 1883. the fol- lowing law:
 Article l. Public lands by the effectd of this law are sl the lands of the Tepub1 lic which have not been destined to d public use by the authority made for that purpose by the law, nor created by thd same. by title onerous or Lucrative. Id some individual or corporation suthori1 ty to acquire them. Art. 2. Every inhsbitsnt of the republic has tha ri0hk ta 5anounoa fosn,--- :.