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Article 3. Each immigrant shall receive a duly exe- 

 cuted title, incommutable, of landed estate, and a certifi- 

 cate that it is free of mortgage. 



Article 4. Such property shall be free from taxes for 

 the first year, and also from duties on transfers of prop- 

 erty, but only on the first sale. 



Article 5. The immigrants may be naturalized as soon 

 as they shall have established themselves as settlers. 



Article 6. Immigrants who may desire to bring laborers 

 with them, or induce them to come in considerable 

 numbers, of any race whatever, are authorized to do so ; 

 but those laborers will be subject to special protective 

 regulations. 



Article 7. The effects of immigrants, their working 

 and brood animals, seeds, agricultural implements, 

 machines, and working tools, will enter free of custom- 

 house and transit duties. 



Article 8. Immigrants are exempted from military 

 service for five years. But they will form a stationary 

 militia for the purpose of protecting their property and 

 neighborhoods. 



Article 9. Liberty in the exercise of their respective 

 forms of religious worship is secured to immigrants by 

 the organic law of the Empire. 



Article 10. Each of our Ministers is charged with 

 carrying out such parts of this Decree as relate to his 

 department". 



Maury prepared a memorandum to accompany the 

 decree, a set of regulations forty-two in number, and 

 some general remarks on the mineral wealth, climate, 

 general geographical features, and agricultural oppor- 

 tunities to be found in Mexico. The immigrants were 

 to be divided into two classes: Class A were those who 



