Mexico
Veracruz
6 January 1915
Printed broadside on paper
Height 34 inches (86.4 cm), width 22 1/2 inches (57.2 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Silver City, New Mexico
The sheet is headed TIERRAS PARA LOS PUEBLOS in heavy display type, with the line Y RESTITUCION DE LOS EJIDOS MUNICIPALES beneath it, the whole enclosed in an Art Nouveau border of stylised poppies and scrolling stems. At the centre is an engraved vignette of a farmer driving a yoke of oxen through a furrow, a rising sun behind him carrying a roundel lettered VINCIT LABOR, with the fields and a village worked in fine line beyond. Below the image Carranza is named with his full titles as Primer Jefe del Ejército Constitucionalista and head of the executive power, the decree itself set in three dense columns, and the sheet closes with the place and date, H. Veracruz el 6 de Enero de 1915, above the signature V. CARRANZA.
The decree is the Ley Agraria of January 1915, issued from Veracruz while Carranza held the port and the capital lay with his opponents. It provided for the restitution of village and ejido lands taken during the Porfiriato, and it established a national agrarian commission with state and local bodies beneath it to receive claims and order expropriations. Its provisions were carried forward into Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917, which makes this sheet one of the founding documents of Mexican land reform.
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Mexico
Veracruz
6 January 1915
Printed broadside on paper
Height 34 inches (86.4 cm), width 22 1/2 inches (57.2 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Silver City, New Mexico
The sheet is headed TIERRAS PARA LOS PUEBLOS in heavy display type, with the line Y RESTITUCION DE LOS EJIDOS MUNICIPALES beneath it, the whole enclosed in an Art Nouveau border of stylised poppies and scrolling stems. At the centre is an engraved vignette of a farmer driving a yoke of oxen through a furrow, a rising sun behind him carrying a roundel lettered VINCIT LABOR, with the fields and a village worked in fine line beyond. Below the image Carranza is named with his full titles as Primer Jefe del Ejército Constitucionalista and head of the executive power, the decree itself set in three dense columns, and the sheet closes with the place and date, H. Veracruz el 6 de Enero de 1915, above the signature V. CARRANZA.
The decree is the Ley Agraria of January 1915, issued from Veracruz while Carranza held the port and the capital lay with his opponents. It provided for the restitution of village and ejido lands taken during the Porfiriato, and it established a national agrarian commission with state and local bodies beneath it to receive claims and order expropriations. Its provisions were carried forward into Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917, which makes this sheet one of the founding documents of Mexican land reform.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
