1895 
Pinotepa 
del ^stado 
the proper condition of the schools* streets, public buildings and 
grounds, and attend to any repairs or improvements that are being made 
(this is in Pinotepa), 
At 2 P,M, on the 23rd the band of 100 men who are hunting bandits 
passed through town some on horseback and some afoot. They were armed 
with such weapons as each possessed and a great variety of shot guns of 
old cheap patterns with revolvers and a very few repeating rifles made 
up the list of fire-arms, nearly everyone having some species of fire¬ 
arm and all carried machetes of which at least one half were carried 
naked in the hand. Tied to the saddles or slung over the left shoulder 
of the footmen were net-like sacks in which a supply of tortillas and 
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garments dirty and ragged with wide felt hats, and made a wild, half¬ 
savage looking band. 
In Pinotepa the beams and doors of houses, store fixtures, furniture, 
etc, are largely made of mahogany of which boards a foot across are about 
as large as can be cut, Up to this size this wood is said to be common 
along this part of the coast as well as the Palo de Campeohe, 
The court held by the President© of Pinotepa was an arbitrary but 
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fatherly kind of an affair. One man came to complain of a workman who 
had received some pay in advance, as is the custom with these people, 
and had then run away without working it out. This man had been brought 
along by the complainant and the Pre si dente told him that he must return 
and work out his time or he would have him put in jail. Another com¬ 
plained of a man as a vagabond and he was sent to jail. An old woman 
complained of having been beaten by a man and he was put in jail. 
Every Sunday a general license is given for anyone to get drunk who 
wishes and he is not arrested unless he disturbs the peaoe. During the 
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