D. RAMON GUTIERREZ DEL MAZO, GEFE POLÍTICO DE ESTA CAPITAL, INTENDENTE DE ELLA Y SU PROVINCIA, Y SUPERINTENDENTE DE HACIENDA PÚBLICA &c. [caption title]

Puebla: Oficina de D. Pedro de la Rosa, October 19, 1821.. Broadside, 17 x 12 inches. Text in two columns. Manuscript rubric of Carlos Garcia. Old folds, light general wear. Very good plus. Untrimmed. A scarce broadside from Agustín de Iturbide's brief period of power in Mexico. After leading the coalition of Mexican forces which took over Mexico City in 1821, winning independence from Spain, Iturbide became president of the regency government before being made Emperor (over his own protestations) the following year. Despite his success as a military leader, Iturbide's tenure as Emperor proved less providential. A significant faction which had hoped for a republican government after independence agitated against him, particularly within Mexico's Congress. Iturbide made more enemies by dismissing the uncooperative congress a few months into his reign. He also found it difficult to gain recognition for an independent Mexico abroad and was unable to effectively pay for his army, leading to his exile in March 1823, only eight months after his coronation.

This broadside, printed while Iturbide was in office as President of the Regency but before his coronation as Emperor, relays a bando from Iturbide regarding the national revenue. Among other stipulations, it notes that Mexico's indigenous populations, having lost the privileged status they held under the Spanish constitution, would now be subject to the alcabala (i.e. sales tax). The document is initialed in manuscript by Carlos Garcia. Garcia was mayor of Puebla (where this broadside was distributed) in 1821, and administered the oath of office to Iturbide when he became President of the Regency. Garcia later became president of Puebla's Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, interim governor of the state, and held numerous other political posts in the First Mexican Republic. Gutierrez, who promulgated the document, was the first political chief of Mexico City and distributed numerous broadsides in Mexico's first year of independence, including the Mexican Declaration of Independence.

Quite a scarce document - OCLC records similar but possibly not identical copies only at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, and possibly the Biblioteca Nacional de México. OCLC 54269355.