(WEST--TEXAS.) José Justo Corro. Plan to pay for Mexican foreign debt with land in Texas, California and other frontier territories. 3 printed pages, 12 x 8½ inches, on one folding sheet, signed in type by Ignacio Alas as secretary; 2 short tape repairs on fore-edge, later pencil notes; modern private library bookplate on verso. Mexico, 12 April 1837 A decree establishing a Mexican national account at 5% interest to redeem the foreign debt, using 100 million acres of land on the northern frontier in the states of Tejas, Chihuahua, Nuevo Mexico, Sonora, and California (this was a year into Texan independence). The final Article 10 offers full legal status as colonists to foreigners who colonize these territories. 4 in OCLC; not in Streeter, Texas. One other traced at auction, at Swann on 12 November 1981, lot 543.