[Texas]: [Victoria, Guadalupe]: Pedraza, Gomez:

$2,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO SECCION DE GOBIERNO...EL ECSMO. SR. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS MEXICANOS, SE HA SERVIDO DIRIJIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE….1o. SE HABILITA PROVISIONALMENTE EL PUERTO ... A very rare and important Mexican colonial decree announced by Guadalupe Victoria and promulgated by Gomez Pedraza, establishing Galveston as an official port. Stephen F. Austin had lobbied the Mexican government to establish Galveston as a port city in Coahuila and Texas, given that any goods entering Texas had to be imported into Mexico first and then carried overland into Texas. The present law, enacted in 1825, provisionally established Galveston as an official Mexican port, stated that there would be a customs house built, and that determinations on its permanence would be made as soon as possible. In between this time and the permanent establishment of the customs house, Austin himself reneged on his support of Galveston, instead rallying for a port to be established at the mouth of the Brazos River. Regardless of whether he had inspired the present law, the Mexican government ignored Austin's new arguments and built the customs house at Galveston as planned in 1830."This action of the Federal Congress was perhaps brought about by a communication of Stephen F. Austin to the Congress of Coahuila and Texas dated February 4, 1825...strongly advocating the opening of Galveston as a port free of duties....It states very briefly in sections one and two that Galveston is provisi

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