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Jose Antonio Saucedo
José Antonio Saucedo (1766–1832) was a Mexican politician. José Antonio Saucedo served the local government ayuntamiento of San Antonio#History, San Fernando de Béxar in the early 1800s. He served as its secretary in 1823, and he signed declarations of Texas’ intention to comply with the Plan of Casa Mata. During Stephen F. Austin, Stephen F. Austin's early attempt to establish a colony in Texas, Saucedo urged discontented settlers to recognize Austin's local authority. By April 1824, however, Saucedo reduced the fees Austin charged settlers for surveying and administrating the Mexican land grants. He continued to back Austin's authority within the colony. After briefly acting as governor of Texas in the first part of 1824, he established the boundaries and regulations for the Stephen F. Austin Colony after August 1824 under the authority of the newly established state of Coahuila and Texas. References Mexican political people Mexican Texas Year of birth missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayuntamiento
''Ayuntamiento'' ()In other languages of Spain: * ca, ajuntament (). * gl, concello (). * eu, udaletxea (). is the general term for the town council, or ''cabildo'', of a municipality or, sometimes, as is often the case in Spain and Latin America, for the municipality itself. is mainly used in Spain; in Latin America is also for municipal governing bodies, especially the executive ones, where the legislative body and the executive body are two separate entities. In Catalan-speaking parts of Spain, municipalities generally use the Catalan cognate, , while Galician ones use the word , Astur-Leonese and Basque . Since is a metonym for the building in which the council meets, it also translates to "city/town hall" in English. Historically With the eighteenth-century Bourbon Reforms in New Spain, which created intendancies and weakened the power of the viceroy, the ''ayuntamientos'' "became the institution representing the interests of the local and regional oligarchical gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |