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1829 Early Texas History Original Dominguez Land Grant
(Texas History - 1829 Dominguez Land Grant). Partly-Printed Document for 177 136/1000 English Acres of the Dominguez Land Grant, Signed by the Recipient of the Grant, John Dominguez, who had been granted the right to colonize lands by Texas on July 6, 1829, Very Fine.
Important Texas History, Scarce Dominguez Grant. Folds and some light foxing. Under the terms of the Grant, Dominguez was to bring American and European settlers to Texas during a six year period. Dominguez, who resided in Mexico, appointed Victor Blanco, lieutenant governor of Texas, to execute his contract. Dominguez brought no Colonists to Texas, and the contract expired in 1835" The lands included in the grant are detailed as follows in the document, reading in part:



"Commencing on the RIVER ARKANSAW, at that point which is crossed by the twenty-third degree of longitude west from the CITY OF WASHINGTON, which is in fact the boundary line between the MEXICAN REPUBLIC UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA; thence the line runs to the south. along the said twenty-third degree of longitude or boundary line, a distance of FORTY LEAGUES to the west, which is the limit of the reserve referred to in the colonization law of the 18th of August A.D.1824. At the point at which the said last mentioned twenty leagues terminate, a line is to be drawn to the north parallel which the said twenty-third degree of west longitude from WASHINGTON, till it reaches the said RIVER ARKANSAW, which forms the boundary line between the MEXICAN REPUBLIC and the UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Thence the said grant runs along the western bank of the ARKANSAW for TWENTY LEAGUES, till it comes to the part at which it is crossed by the before mentioned twenty-third degree of longitude west from the CITY OF WASHINGTON, which is the place of beginning."



Dominguez, who resided in Mexico City, appointed Victor Blanco, lieutenant governor of Texas, to execute his contract. Dominguez brought no colonists to Texas, and the contract expired in 1835.