The congress of 1831 voted to Guerrero's widow and offspring a yearly pension of $3,000.[1] The legislature of Oajaca in March, 1833, decreed that his remains should be exhumed, and with due solemnity be deposited in the church of Santo Domingo.[2] The town of Cuilapa was erected into a city under the name of Ciudad Guerrero. That same year the national congress ordered the renains to be transferred to Mexico and placed in a mausoleum in the Santa Paula cemetery.[3] This was not carried out till 1842, when it was decreed that the highest honors should be paid to the hero's memory. On the 8th of April, 1843, a monument was ordered to be erected in Santa Paula, at the expense of the public treasury, and dedicated to Guerrero.
After the ex-president's death the war in that region of southern Mexico, later organized as the state of Guerrero, ceased, Álvarez submitting to Bustamante's government.
- ↑ At the death of either, the survivor was to have the whole pension. Dublan and Lozano, Legis. Mex., ii. 314; Arrillaga, Recop., 1831, 216.
- ↑ A full description of the exhumation and other ceremonies appears in Carriedo, Estudios Hist., ii. 40-55; Guerrero, V., Soberano Estado. Mariano Riva Palacio, who had married Guerrero's daughter, was granted the right of citizenship in the state.
- ↑ Decree of Nov. 17, 1833. Dublan and Lozano, Legis. Mex., ii. 601.
