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vestiges of the late conflicts in the city, rebuilding the plaza Volador, and causing the erection of a new theatre to bear his name. He must also be credited with having fostered education, trade, and industries in several directions, establishing mercantile tribunals and juntas de fomento for general development in departmental capitals and ports,^[1] reinstalling the old mining tribunal and forming a legislative junta to edit the code. A contract was entered into to open the Tehuantepec Isthmus for interoceanic traffic, although nothing came of it;^[2] steps were taken to plant European colonies in Tamaulipas, with little success;^[3] and Mexican territory was swelled by the incorporation of Soconusco, a province formerly belonging to Chiapas, but which, refusing to join her when she separated from Guatemala to become part of the newly formed Mexican republic, had maintained independence of both neighbors. Aggressive

Lebria y Barrera, Cobre Tabac. Prest., several pamphlets. Pap. Var., cliv. pts 1-10.

1. Supported by one eighth per cent on consumption duties and other contributions. Regulations of Nov. 15th, in Méx., Col. Ley. y Dec., 1841, 119-25. Otero, Obras, MS., ii. 7-12, has some excellent observations on efforts for development in Mexico. A proposed bribe by merchants of $700,000 for the free introduction of spun thread, though tempting to a poor government, was rejected in the interest of manufactures. Comments in Verdadera á la Falsa Opinion, 1-15; Bustamante, Gabinete Mex., MS., iv. 16-17. Information on schools of agriculture, mining, etc., in Baranda, Dec. Escuclas, 1-12; Dublan and Lozano, Leg. Mex., iv. 514-31; Méx., Junta Minería, 1-12. On the Volador rebuilding, in Méx., Ayunt. Expos. Plaza Volador; Pap. Var., clv. pt 14. In course of 1843 the famous Parian bazaar, chiefly occupied by mercers, at an annual rental to the municipality of $30,000, was demolished for the sake of embellishing the plaza. Petition against the decree in Méx., Expos., 1-16; Pap. Var., lxxxiii. pt 11. Losses to merchants specified in Lista de Daños del Parian, 1845, MS., 1-7; Doc. Hist. Mex., pt 12.
2. With Garay, agent for Englishmen, who again transferred the charter to Americans. Contract in Diario Gob., March 4, 1842. Details of plan, survey, etc., in Garay, Isth. Tehuan., 1-188. The later claims of the grantees were ignored. Tehuan., Dictámen Comis., 1851, 1-51; Tehuan., Mem. Derechos, 1852, 1-28; Garay, Privileg., 1-28; Manero, Not. Hist. Com., 51-6; Ramirez, Mem. Diferenc., 1-10s. The interoceanic question will be treated in another place.
3. Which brought about also the permission for foreigners to hold real estate, although not without protests. Dublan and Lozano, Leg. Mex., iv. 465, 620-1. Outlines of colonization plans in Willie, Not. Hac., 53-7, ap. 14-28. Bustamante objects. Diario, MS., xliv. 51. Rivero compares the value of different nationalities for Mexico, and finds all lacking in sympathy. Мéх. еп 1842, 240-1.