Serie Primera 937 
Ciudadania. 
(Citizenship. 1826-1870. TI caja.) 
Petitions of individuals for citizenship in Mexico and correspondence rela- 
tive to conditions of doing so. There are perhaps not more than a score of 
documents bearing on the United States. 
Colonizacién. 
(Colonization. 1824-1882. 4 cajas.) 
Caja 1824-1859. 
Colonization law of Coahuila and Texas. 1825. 
Contract of Thomas Roper Curzon and James Henry Deacon, of London, 
to settle 400 families in California, New Mexico, Texas, or Coa- 
huila ; original contract in both languages, Mar. 21, 1825 ; related 
correspondence. 
“ Plan a Aion of the Californias presented by Colonel Torrens.” 
1826. 
Petition of Robert Owen [the noted socialist] for permission to establish 
colonies and introduce his social system into Texas. Sept., 1828. 
Original memorial by Owen. 9 pp. 
Correspondence of Tadeo Ortiz and Lucas Alaman (minister of rela- 
tions) relative to new colonies (evidently of non-Americans) on 
the frontier of Texas. 1830. 
Two es by Gorostiza relative to colonization, dated in London. 
1830. 
Various petitions for concessions. 1830-1832. 
gts Mr. Rosset for permission to establish a colony in Texas. 
1832. | 
Id. of the “ Society for the Colonization of Oregon”’ for permission to 
pass through Mexican territory without paying duties on goods. 
1832. 
Petition of Baron Johan de Backnitz, of the Netherlands, for lands in 
Texas. 1832. 
Report of a plan to divert emigration from Liberia to Texas. 1833. 
Migration of Indians from the United States to Mexico. 
Petition of John Ross, Cherokee chief, to migrate with his tribe to Mex- 
ican territory. 1835. 
Inquiry of Francisco Frank, James A. Robertson, and Julio Boehmer, of 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, relative to conditions of colonization in 
Mexico. Circa 1835. 
Correspondence with the legation in Washington relative to emigration 
from the United States to Oregon and California. 1843-1844. 
Proposal of a German citizen to colonize the northern frontier of Mexico 
with Europeans. 1843. 
Appointment of Tadeo Ortiz as commissioner to New Mexico to transfer 
Mexican families to Mexican territory. 1848. 
Petition of a citizen of the United States concerning the colonization of 
Isla de Guadalupe. 1849. 
Discussion of the formation of a colony of Americans on the frontier of 
Baja California as a stopping place for emigrants to Alta Cali- 
fornia (“ forty-niners’’). Correspondence with the consul at 
New Orleans. 1849. 
