BY STEPHEN F. AUSTIN, Civil Commandant of the Colony
forming on the Colorado and Brassos Rivers, in the Province of
Texas:—
permission is hereby granted to__________________________________
to emigrate and settle in the Colony forming by me, under the
authority and protection of the government of New Spain, at the
points above stated.
Said________________________________________________________
required to comply with the general regulations annexed:
General Regulations relative to the Colony
1. No person will be admitted as a settler, who does not produce
satisfactory evidence of having supported the character of a moral,
sober, and industrious citizen.
2. Each settler must, when called on by the Governor of said
Province, take the oath of allegiance to the government exercising
the sovereignty of the country.
3. Six hundred and forty acres of land will be granted to the
head of each family, and in addition to that, three hundred and
twenty acres to a man's wife, one hundred and sixty acres for each
child, and eighty acres for each slave; which land will be laid off
in two equal tracts, one on the river in an oblong, the other is to
be located so as not to interfere with the river lands; one of said
tracts must be actually inhabited and cultivated by the person and
family who has permission to settle it, within one year from the
first of January 1822.— Twelve cents and a half per acre, must be
paid me for said land, one half on receipt of title, the other half in
one year after, which will be in full for surveying fees and all
other charges—each settler will chuse his own tracts of land within
the limits designated by said Austin.
4. Mechanics and men of capital, will receive additional
privileges in proportion to their capacity to be useful.
5. Each settler is required to report himself to me, or the officer
who has charge of the Colony, immediately on his arrival, and to
furnish a list of the number of his family, giving the name of his
children and their age, the number of negroes, designating those
under twelve years of age, those over twelve and under twenty-one,
those over twenty-one, and if any of the family are mechanics to
state what kind.
[November 23, 1821.]