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" The governor has been informed that the vice-governor of 

 Balize" (meaning, no doubt, Mr. Secretary Walker and Captain 

 Caddy) " came to explore the ruins a few days since, with fourteen 

 armed men, and you have neither prevented him nor given any 

 information to this government. 



" Now he is again informed that some citizens of the United 

 States of the North are doing the same ; in virtue of which, his 

 excellency orders me to tell you to inform him immediately upon 

 the truth of these facts, that he may take the necessary measures. 

 " God and liberty. 



" Enrique Ruiz. 



* San Cristobal,* October 1, 1840." 



" The subscribers, inhabitants of this town, as true patriots, 

 and lovers of the prosperity and advancement of their country, 

 before you, with due respect, and with the legal right that we 

 may have, appear, saying that it is something like more than 

 three months since a citizen of North America, named Henry 

 Paulin, has fixed his residence on the ruins in this district, with 

 the view of making moulds of every monument and precious 

 thing that there is on them ; as, in fact, he is making them, 

 since, up to this date ; he has already made something like 

 thirty moulds of plaster of Paris, including two which he took to 

 the town of Carmen, without giving notice to anybody, and with 

 the object of shipping them for the North" (these two have been 

 received by the author). " The said moulds are so much like 

 the originals, that at the first sight it may be observed that they 

 may be taken, surely, for second originals, and no doubt they 

 may serve to mould after them as many copies as might be 

 wished, and in this manner they may supply the world with 

 these precious things without a six cents' piece expense. Mr. 

 William Brown, married to Donna Trinidad Garrido, offered 

 from eight to ten thousand dollars only for the leave to extract 

 four or six principal stones from these ruins, in quality of a loan 

 * * * * or t0 * * * *» ( tne precise nature of Mr. William 

 Brown's offer cannot be made out, from the illegible character 



* Or Ciudad Real, the capital of the State of Chiapas. 



