1892 
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San Luis 
(S.L.Potosi) 
Patzcuaro 
(Michoacan) 
and v as it was supposed that the com was held by agents of the 
Catholic clergy, a cry of "Death to the Clergy" was raised and the 
mob swept down the street. The Governor and Jefe Politico did their 
best to quiet the people, and the usurers in fear of their lives 
opened their warehouses and their com was quickly distributed among 
the people at the former price of 9/. The people, numbering several 
thousand, then dispersed quietly to their homes without a single act 
of violence so far as I could learn. 
The Governor soon after caused a law to be passed by the State 
legislature compelling everyone who held corn beyond a small amount 
necessary for his personal use to report the amount of the same to 
the authorities, giving his reason for holding it. In default of such 
report, the holder of all excess corn is to be fined |2.00 for each 
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fanega of com so held. In this way the Government will know the 
available supply and can avoid any further danger of riots by com¬ 
pelling the sale of surplus oom. 
■Then I came to Patzcuaro early in July, the people were just 
is a common sight to see four or 6 carrying at a trot a coffin on 
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their shoulders through the streets while a few miserable mourners 
trot along behind. 
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October 5. I left San Luis and returned to Patzcuaro to complete 
some work I had in hand there. Bn route I heard of a recent bread 
riot that took place the last of September in the State capital,- 
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Morelia, . . 
The Government has been supplying the people with U.S. corn at 
9 i a quarteron the cost price of imported own, but the supply became 
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exhausted then sante local parties who had corn at once put the 
price at 36^ a quarteron. The poor people thereupon arose en mass 
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