To: marcos who wrote (925 ) 1/18/2003 8:09:17 PM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (1) | Respond to And I pointed out to you, <sigh>, that in that case there was no agreement between Mejico and the Republic of Texas on the location of the border. The best the Texans could do was assume that border was the Rio Grande, as stated in the Treaty of Velasco signed by el Presidente de la Republica. Which they did.quisling You have decided to be a permanent pimple on my ass, follow me around these threads ad nauseam glo.state.tx.us Under Mexico, Texas continued to act as a buffer zone against the aggressive United States. Settlers were needed to protect the area, but most Mexican settlers preferred to stay on land closer to home that was cheaper and not subject to Indian raids. Mexico continued the empresario system begun by Spain, whereby an agent contracted with the government to recruit colonists and locate them on individual tracts of land within a specified area. In return, the empresario received premium land within the colony and was allowed to collect fees from the colonists. Mexico retained ownership of the land within a colony until the colony's land commissioner issued title to it. The colony's actual boundaries were therefore determined by the extent of settlement within it, rather than by the boundaries specified in the contract. Mexico made more than two dozen empresario contracts, about half of which were even partially carried out. However, empresarios brought about 50,000 settlers to Texas between 1821 and 1836.
