Appendix H: Blalock Mexico Colony Concessions Contract with the Republic of Mexico on July 18, 1903.

Summary: Federal Government. - Department of Public Works. -  Contract concluded with the representative of Mexico Blalock Colony, for the establishment of the settlers in the Hacienda Chamal located in the Municipality of C. Ocampo in this state.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Secretary of State and the Office of Development and Industrial Colonization.
First Section.
Fifteen stamps worth thirty-five dollars, duly canceled.


CONTRACT
Concluded between the C. General Manuel Gonzalez Cosio, Secretary of State and the Office of Development, representing the Federal Executive, and Mr. Rafael Pardo, as proxy of the "Blalock Mexico Colony" for the establishment of settlers in the State of Tamaulipas.

"Art. 1. In accordance with article 28 of the law of December 15, 1883, the Blalock Mexico Colony is authorized to establish on land which it owns, which bears the name of El Chamal and which is situated in the municipality of Santa Barbara, district of the same name, State of Tamaulipas, an agricultural and industrial colony.

"Art. 2. The concessionaire has charge of the division, water supply, and sanitation of said land, as well as of the assignment of lots to the colonists for residence and cultivation, and in this respect the concessionaire will draw up a plan of the allotments, which, together with a report thereon by an expert, will be presented to the Department of Fomento for its approval within eighteen months from the promulgation of the concession.

"Art. 3. The concessionaire company obliges itself to settle upon the Chamal estate within two years, counted from the date of the promulgation of the concession, at least one hundred families of colonists, whose members in the aggregate shall not be fewer than two hundred and fifty persons; the concessionaire company must settle these colonists upon alternate lots, leaving, for each colonist settled, a lot of ten hectares, so that the Mexican Government may on its own account establish colonists of Mexican nationality who will be entitled to acquire land at the same price as is charged to the company's colonists, the only condition being that the individuals thus settled shall be peaceable and law-abiding people. The company obliges itself to advertise periodically through the press the terms on which it will admit the colonists to the lots in question.