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Show i @ ™ ae ee ee oe ee ot ee ee Ne eae ae pe 8 oe ee) ey eel ae ee altel Se Pee De Mente SABE ¥- Pe le 6 pe rt ek ek ee oh = nl ae Bee pee 58 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY taxes and these leaders went from place to place, measure in the most objectionable manner possible, obnoxious features, they declared that under this be collected upon poultry; that husbands would privileges generally attaching to connubial bliss; for the relief of the Royal Municipality the following Public example the love I bear to the inhabitants upon me by my position, I issue Plan of Regulation of Instruction. ‘‘Art. 1. There shall be in this city two schools, particularly of primary instruction, in charge of Masters who may present themselves to conduct them, and who have the proper capacity in the judgment of a commission named by the me re -# C7 x? on PePe oe ee ee ee r CRT ; ; fe _— en pe eee Pag ea toi Slt ees heePe Sole ee) est PA ee al en! he ae oe ee pe Soe ee 2 > } Li which shall examine them in reading, writing, and counting. them have not the capacity and the approval required by the preceding article, to which end they may present themselves for examination, in opposition. eel | ii oe od 6 Lk TTP -auren corporation, ‘2. The schools of the same nature now existing, gone through by heads of families, shall be destroyed, provided always that the Masters who conduct ‘*3. The Masters shall enjoy upon with the heads of families, be poor, in products of the soil, the absolutely miserable, who have such salary or recompense as may be agreed and shall receive pay from those known to teaching gratis, orphan children, or those of no livelihood or power to pay. **4, All Fathers or Guardians who have children in their care from the age of five to twelve years, are obliged to send them to one of the schools whichever best suits them, and the youths of twelve years or more [must be] i houses of artisans in the different branches of industry, that they may earn 4 living by honest occupation. a Those who fail to comply with the first part of the preceding article, by omission or neglect, shall be required by law, to pay a fine of from, one to five p. according to their means, in the first, double in the second, and triple in the third, and those who are still recalcitrant, and those who cal not pay the fine, shall be punished by law with three days arrest, doubling this punishment in the same way as the pecuniary one. 6. The Youths spoken of in the second part of the fourth article who 40 not consent to learn a trade, or who have no honest occupation, shall be treated as vagrant or vicious, and be tried and sentenced by the established Court and the ihe governing such cases. ‘‘7. The Justices of the Wards. the wardens or deputies of the police, may arrest youths of twelve years or over, whom they find vi tio catbnd ae publie Eee engaged in betting games, at the end of eight days giving notice to one ewe magistrates for the recognizance; and the children of twelve or unde? tes on find behaving ill, they shall take to the school that they may there without fail, P°N#tY of detention, advising the Master to punish them ‘*8. j Every one or two ward iv s shall form two blocks divided . and designated by be in ea unanimo on known names and fixed numbers. eb proportionate, ey - facilitate the better carrying out of this proclamation there shall ch block a commissioner of Public Instruction, named by three justices usly whose duties shall be; : dena i. o agesmake exact lists of the inhabitants of their blocks, with 4 be : Beco and occupations by which they live. “cond. To make another list of the children who shall attend the school, REVOLUTION OF 1837-8 D9 urged not to submit to such a law and, never having been accustomed to the payment of direct taxes of any kind, being too ignorant to make proper inquiry as to the truth of the matter, they were soon aroused to the highest pitch of exasperation against the government. The leaders despatched secret agents into all portions of the department, exciting the populace and inducing them to resist the collection representing the and among other act, taxes would be taxed for the the people were were cared for by its municipal authorities, should be the enviable of others composing a most interesting part of the Mexican Nation. ‘*Moved by such salutary reflections, and of this soil, and by the obligation imposed THE and go to each of the two, in order to learn if of the youths who ought to apply themselves to with what Masters, and of the day laborers and they can certify to the correctness of all this. ‘Third. To announce, courteously, one, two, or of families or guardians of children, what is set preceding articles. they are there; an account a trade, in what shop and where, they work, so that three times, to the fathers forth in the clauses of the **Fourth. To give notice in writing, to the magistrate of the precinct of those who, having been admonished, still do not comply, so that through him, or by advising the judge, the law may made themselves liable. a ifth. To give notice, in the who, having been admonished, inflict the penalty, to which they have same manner, of all those living in idleness, do not find occupation, declaring all they can testify as to the proper or objectionable habits of the individuals. Sixth. To give notice also, of any suspicious persons that may be in their blocks, who are Spending money without knowing whether they come by it honestly, with the grounds Seventh. To visit for the suspicion. every month, the schools to which the children go, to learn from the Masters whether they attend, and to get the information for ee datos Similar visits shall be made to the workshops for the same se. th _ Eighth, They shall make note, in their lists, of the inhabitants who leave ;aig blocks, to what i ‘Ninth. They others they go, and shall be charged with of those who come to live in their the cleanliness of the streets and pub- ¢ places in their blocks, giving to the magistrate of the precinct of any negleet they notice. - iS 10. Any person interfering with the commissioner in the discharge a he A shall be punished by a fine of from five to twenty-five p. without ey ce that if the fault be serious, he may be 's relating to ordinary transgressions. puls 11. The duty of a commissioner of Public ‘i ut oki ie ay one, and Months, no one without can be excused being required from punished Instruction discharging to continue, it; this term according to the shall be a comit is obligatory completed, un- © end of the year, and the magistrates can remove him, for sufficient Se, a8 neglect or bad management, if proven. : or any duties, he Shall be duty ; and if the tolera tion of of offense committed by the commissioner in the discharge of his punished by &xacted fif ty p. or two months as. This ordinance may Ayuntami ento may Validity, a fine of from ten to thirty p. and deprivation the offence be the concealment of mischievous persons, them without giving notice to the Judges there shall deem forced labor. be amended in whole or in part when proper, being convinced of its advantages “Santa Fé, July 16, 1836. or be the R. or 1n- ALBINO PEREZ.’’ |