historical curiosities GUINEA SPANISH
Extracted from the Official Gazette of the Province of Logroño No. 35, dated March 25, 1859 (reflects the State Gazette)
Ministry of War-Ultramar
Viewed the case file with the exhibition D. Francisco Jacas and Stables and D. Cibuta Francisco, asking permission to bring settlers to Fernando Po, and requesting exemption from payment of export duties and anchor. Whereas
access these claims are detrimental both to the interests of the state and the trade in general:
Considering further that no special concessions that could be very favorable to the successful colonization started accredit exponents to bring settlers to that island, under the general rules established by Royal Decree of 13 December last, the Queen (QDG) in accordance with the opinion of the Council of Ministers has served reject the request of the speakers regarding the exemption of those export duties and anchor, while having deigned SM, grant and Cuadras and expressed Cibuta Jacas, 15 acres of land for each settler who carried Fernando Poo with complete subject to the rules contained in the aforementioned Royal Decree of 13 December last, and the conditions stated below.
1 .-- The company will always have your deposit of Santa Isabel, in the repeated Island, groceries, clothing and needed supplies to the settlers for six months.
2 .-- The Governor of Fernando Poo take the necessary measures to conceptualize to monitor compliance with the obligations of the partnership with the settlers and vice versa.
3 .-- The correspondence will be admitted free on the company ships established between the mainland and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.
4 .-- After 99 years the duration of the contract, the company will assign to the Government all supplies, tools and buildings who possesses in Fernando Poo and adjacent islands.
5 .-- The society will support its passage and ships to individuals of troops and settlers that the Government will send the amount of 500 rs. Vellon each, but the concept that the Government is in complete freedom provided by other vessels if deemed appropriate.
6 .-- In the event that the company would serve as the corporation, shall be subject to the general rules established for this kind of companies by existing provisions.
7 .-- The company is not entitled to any special provision in the possessions of the Gulf of Guinea, but only to those expressed in the repeated Royal Decree of 13 December last.
The company is also required to observe the setting, transportation and establishment of settlers following conditions:
1 st Prior to recruit settlers any of the provinces of Spain, he shall notify the Governor, so that it can ensure mean that the contract you complete freedom and knowledge of what is agreed.
2 º And also need to inform the Governor of Alicante the number of settlers in each issue and boarding the ship to verify.
3 The company will not carry on vessels more than a settler and a half per ton of tonnage.
4 º Ships shall be provided water and healthy food in an amount proportionate to the number of persons who drive and the distance you must travel, be kept in them besides the toilet and ventilation requirements for health maintenance of travelers.
5 The Company will be provided medical and first aid on all ships carrying settlers, if the number of these exceeds 10, even if not up to you to demand that fact certain general provisions on commercial navigation.
6 th may not be transported to Fernando Po in the class of settlers minors, unless they go in with her parents.
7 º When the same vessel to embark men and women, will be placed with the proper separation.
8 .-- The Governor of Fernando Poo and its dependencies taken special care to make sure, the arrival of ships to that island, that has been provided by the company all the conditions imposed.
9 .-- Each settler will receive from the company, by signing the contract, 500 rs. vn. cash.
10 .-- The tenant will be transported to Alicante and from this point to Fernando Poo on behalf of the company.
11 .-- From the day of shipment until the end of the contract between the settler and society, this will provide room, board and clothing, both in health and disease, providing the year three suits, the which will give each other sign the contract and reserve the day of shipment.
Each suit is composed of straw hat with rubber lining, blouses, cotton canvas, double-soled laced shoes, leather leggings, neckerchief and another for the hand, white canvas backpack, leather belt and a brandy bottle to its corresponding string.
The dress of the Indians shall consist of ordinary straw hat without a lining of rubber, cotton shirt and trousers of the same fabric long to mid-calf.
12 .-- The maintenance of settlers from the date of shipment until the conclusion of the contract is a daily one pound of biscuit, half of rice, a quarter pound of beans, a pound of potatoes or Yames, a quarter pound of bacon, half pound of dried codfish, a quart of oil, and a pint of brandy, will also those daily one ounce of chopped snuff.
13 .-- The maintenance of each indigenous worker each day will consist of one pound of biscuit, one pound of rice and a pint of brandy. 14 .-- Each
European settler also receive 40 reales per month in cash.
15 .-- The partnership will allow the settlers and workers all the tools and supplies needed for work, being always realize that keeping in good condition such useful tools.
16 .-- In case of illness of the farmer, will be assisted and careful account of the company until it is ready to return to work usual, but for this reason lose any of their rights or the duty to acquire the property. To this end the company shall, where it sees fit, a hospital room with a surgeon and kits own weather conditions. 17 .--
obligation of the company will provide the settlers religious worship, for that purpose and keep hold of your account a priest of the Society of Jesus in each section colonization.
18 .-- The company set up five sections colonizers. Each section is composed of 500 white settlers and an equal number of indigenous workers, in addition to personnel deemed necessary to address and service, the company must provide an Indian servant for every 10 white settlers. The third part of the settlers should be married. 19 .-- Each
white settler is entitled to an estate with 15 acres of land cleared and ready for cultivation. Society in the act of registering the settler given your number and the section that corresponds to that you can acquire by strict seniority shift the ownership of that portion of land at the time it is ready for cultivation.
20 .-- The company, to deliver the property to the tenant, will provide seeds and plants of the nature of the country, home of the conditions later be expressed, and tools necessary for growing horses.
21 .-- It will also provide indigenous laborers needed to work one year and remain with the same faction during the same time the settler, so that it can get to take the first harvest, but this always in the whole house will be under the direction of society.
22 .-- After the first year and collection of the first harvest, the company will transfer the land for each settler, being the owner of the property entirely.
23 .-- The company issued to the settler on his arrival to the city of Santa Isabel full weaponry, It contains a double-barreled shotgun, a pair of holster pistols half a boarding ax and a hunting knife, these weapons will be owned by the settler, without prejudice to any provision of police, the Governor saw fit to adopt.
24 .-- The room to be provided to the settlers will consist of an iron house, lined with wood, 300 square feet for each two, at the same time they will be given the necessary furniture. The settler married will alone be entitled to a house in the same conditions. A native workers to give the company room every two triangular tent, thick cotton cloth, tarred, mounted on stilts, 12 feet high at the center, 12 wide at its base and 16 long.
25 .-- In giving the company the settler on his farm product, we give the property a house with its furniture of the same conditions stated.
26 .-- The house and household items referred to in the preceding article, will receive the signing of the contract value of 700 rs.
27 .-- If the tenant with bad behavior give pernicious examples of demoralization, if not willing to work like everyone else, no disrespect to their superiors or provoke fights, etc., The company can fire you lose all rights that . In this case, if the tenant so requests, within a period of 24 hours of being laid off will be transported on behalf of the company to Alicante on the first ship of the company out of Fernando Poo, and meanwhile will be maintained by the company.
28 .-- The company may not object to settlers pass their rights in a manner that suits them, once they become owners. The settlers are in turn subject to compliance with the obligations stated below:
First. Must prove his morality to the satisfaction of society and not have been convicted criminally, if they had any misdemeanor two years must have elapsed since their extinction
II. Work under the direction of the company, and be at your service until they are converted into owners. Third
. When you get to be the settlers become the owner, payable in the first two years the company a quarter of their crop, leaving the other three completely on their behalf. Fourth
. The company will also pay the value of the house and furniture to be received at 1,000 rs. annual proceeds or cash.
Quinta. Also paid the company for 98 years about 6 100 of the fruits of their harvest. Sixth
. Cultivate the land use and custom of good farmers, and if it would stop for two consecutive years lose all their rights, and the farm return to society after the fact to justify the judicial authority.
Finally, the Government reserves the power to other companies the same or similar concessions.
of Real VS order to communicate it to the right to monitor compliance with all provisions in the share of the powers are declared. God keep you many years. Madrid February 26, 1859 .- Mr. O `Donnell .= Brigadier D. José de la Gándara, appointed governor of Fernando Po and adjacent islands.
Transcribed by Ferdinand 10/09/1909 African
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