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Rey nuestro Señor se ha dignado dirigirme el Real decreto siguiente
Habiéndome enterado por los papeles públicos que me remite por tu mano mi Virey de México Don Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, Conde de Venadito, de que me has dado cuenta, que por la misericordia divina está muy cerca el término de la pacificacion general de aquellos dominios
Only two years before Mexico claims independence from Spain, Spanish King Ferdinand VII reasserts his authority over his American colonies and asks his subjects to be loyal to both crown and church.
Signed (with rubric): El Marques de Mataflorida.
El Marques de Mataflorida = Bernardo Mozo de Rosales, who was appointed to the Ministerio de Gracia y Justicia in 1819.
Watermark of scales of justice inside a crest topped with a Cross with "M.L Elias" underneath. Another watermark is hard to identify.
The Cushing Library/Colonial Mexican Imprint Collection copy has inscribed in ink: "Nuevo Codigo para America".
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