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prepare the advent of the constitution so far as the political division of the country was concerned.[1]
- ↑ He raised Tlascala and Colima to the rank of states, pursuant to the new constitution. The same law in its 47th article declared that Coahuila and Nuevo Leon should be one state; and in its 48th that the states of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oajaca, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Vera Cruz, Yucatan, and Zacatecas should recover the extent of territory they had previous to Dec. 31, 1852; and thereby the separate territorial status of Isla del Cármen, Tehuantepec, and Sierra Gorda became suppressed. Archivo Mex., Col. Ley., iii. 632-5; Diario de Avisos, June 23, 1857; El Tiempo, Aug. 1, 1852. An unsuccessful effort was made in 1856 for the erection of a new state, to be named Iturbide, with the five districts of Tuxpam, Tampico de Vera Cruz, Tancanhuitz, Huejutla, and the south of Tamaulipas. Soto, M. F., El Nuevo Estado, 3-117; El Estandarte Nac., Dec. 29, 1856; La Nacion, Oct. 18, 1856.
