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Written from Mexico. Document announces an offer to Confederate settlers to purchase the estate of Santa Anna.

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English .

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An offer of 350,00 acres of land is made to Confederate settlers who wish to establish themselves in Mexico.

These lands the most fertile of the Empire, are crossed by three rivers. They are situated on the line of rail-road from Vera Cruz to the Capital, and are near the road from V Cruz to Jalapa. They are in the healthy part of Sierra Caliente, and produce equally well coffee, cocoa, indigo, cotton and sugar cane, as well as all the tropical fruits and vegetables.

The proprietor will sell them to settlers as soon as the letter shall have filled with the Agents of Colonization in the United States or Mexico subscriptions for 200,000 acres at the following rate:
The first 50,000 acres chosen at ---- $1.75
" second " " " " ---- 1.50
" third " " " " ---- 1.25
" fourth " " " " ---- 1.00

The first subscribers will have the right to choose at the above rates with the understanding that not less than 320 acres shall be sold to any of them.

When the 200,00 acres shall have been subscribed for, and chosen the rest shall be sold at a price to be agreed upon between the seller and the purchaser.

The payments shall be made in the following manner:
The third part of the value shall be paid in cash at Mexico, Ver Cruz or New Orleans. The rest thereof shall be paid in four years time causing the payments thereof to be effected in equal parts and yearly, that is to say one sixth of the value of the property adding thereto the interest at the rate of six percent.

As villages and towns will be formed on these lands, a lot will be given gratis to each settler in said villages or towns. Said lots shall be chosen and allotted by Mr. Maury the Imperial Commissioner of Colonization.

The surveying and the cost of the title of the property will be at the expense of the settlers.

City of Mexico
Dec 9th 1865-

Subjects:

Mexico—History
Correspondence

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