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The great question in the case of the absolution of Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkens, : which will be insisted on at the trial of the absolvers 'tis presum'd will be, whether the giving them absolution at the place of execution, was a lawful, or unlawful act. That it was a lawful act, appears to me from the following considerations;
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[unmarked, but in manila folder "State Bills and Acts, SPM 071-2."] About .25" linear. Appears to deal primarily with details of state-by-state appropriation acts. Hmm. Didn't realize states had the power to create their own appropriation legislation in Mexico. Two states detailed are Veracruz and Michoacan. Like so much of this collection, letters contain first or second-hand recollections of the attitudes and actions (or reactions) of key Mexican politicians to a wide range of events related to the railroad. One letter from E.B. Sloan to Titcomb (6/11/32) notes that "a son in law of Calles told me last night that the General had become very much incensed night before last on account of the passage of the [Appropriation] Law in the State of Veracruz, stating that he no more than got things calmed down and secured a partial restoration of confidence in the good intentions of the Mexican Government, when some of the radicals upset his program by means of foolish statements and the passing of Communistic Laws and that it is now time to find out who has the upper hand in political matters: General Calles and his associates, or the extreme radicals." Etc
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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