Download or read book Stephen F. Austin's Register of Families written by Stephen Fuller Austin and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Register is a legacy of the formal, thorough Mexican colonization system. Article J ... of the State of Coahuila and Texas dated March 24, 1825, required that 'any foreigner, already in the limits of the state of Coahuila and Texas, who wished to settle himself in it, shall make a declaration of that effect before the Ayuntamiento of the place which he selects as his residence.' To complete the process of settlement, a local official had to administer to the foreigner an oath of allegiance to both the religion and laws of Mexico."--p. iii.