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

"Art. 10. The Company dealership will have in this Capitol a fully empowered representative so that the Government will deal with him in all that is relative to this contract. "Art. 11. The Company cannot in any case or anytime transfer, sell or mortgage the concession of this Convention to any government or foreign state, or admit as a partner in the Enterprise.

"Art. 12. For each of the families required to be established by article 3 of the concession and which the company fails to establish, it will pay a fine of one hundred pesos in bonds of the public debt, to be turned into the treasury of the Federation when the Department of Fomento so decide

"Art. 13. Company is obliged to make known to the settlers before they come to Republic, existing laws on naturalization and foreigners, it is your responsibility the fulfillment of this obligation.

"Art. 14. To guarantee obligations covered by this contract, the Company dealership will deposit in the Bank within the term of three months from the date of the enactment, the amount of two thousand pesos in public debt bonds to lose in either case for revocation stated in Article 21.

"Art. 15. The settlers that form the families of the Blalock Mexico Colony need to have the character and legal status of those settlers and meet the requirements set by the Colonization law in force in its Articles 5 and 6, observing from the time they enter the country all of the laws of the Republic and complying in regard to them with the stipulations of this agreement.

"Art. 16. In accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the law of colonization at present in force, the colonists settled by the concessionaire Compaq' will enjoy for ten years, counted from the date of the settlement of each family, the following franchises:
"I. Exemption from military service.
"II. Exemption from all kinds of taxes with the exception of municipal taxes and the stamp tax.
"III. Personal and non transferable exemption from import duties on agricultural implements, tools and fixtures, machinery, building materials for houses, furniture in use, animals for draught and breeding purposes, all destined for the colony, the importation of the animals being subject to the provisions laid down in the circulars of the Department of Fomento, dated June 9, 1893.
"IV. Personal and non transferable exemption from export duties on products raised by the colonists.