Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)

by Andrew J. Torget

The most controversial portions of the law, however, sought to end all immigration from the United States into Mexico. “It is prohibited that emigrants from nations bordering on this Republic shall settle in the states or territory adjacent to their own nation,” read the law’s eleventh article, which also suspended all ongoing empresario contracts “not already completed.”