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Title: Tierras baldias, o sea, Historia, esplicación i defensa de los contratos sobre enajenación de tierras baldias, i amortización de la deuda nacional exterior, celebrados por el poder ejecutivo de la Nueva Granada i publicados en la Gaceta Oficial de 18 de Septiembre de 1855, numero 1,857. — Contiene también la refutación de las objeciones que se han hecho a dichos contratos en dos periódicos de esta capital
Creator: Plata, José M.
Publication Info: Bogotá : Imprenta de Echeverria Hermanos, 1856.
Physical Details: 31 p. ; 28 x 18 3/4 cms.
Physical Condition: Worn wrappers, some slight holing, yellowed text, but legible fair.

Summary: José M. Plata, Hacienda Secretary, provides here a detailed examination of the precedents, of the law of June 20th, 1853 concerning public lands. The document presents the government’s rationale for the decree that ordered the use of public land to amortize the national debt.
Historical Notes: Colombia’s public land legislation mirrored that of the rest of the Americas. These lands had a number of uses: they were sold to people and thus represented an important source of revenue for the state; crown land was adjudicated to railway entrepreneurs as an incentive for the rapid development of these projects; and, in Argentina and Colombia, these lands were used to pay the military for its services. These concessions often disproportionately favored large landowners and left colonos and small farmers with little land. Sánchez Torres, Fabio; Fazio Vargas, Antonella; López-Uribe, María del Pilar 2010 Conflictos de tierra, derechos de propiedad y surgimiento de la economía exportadora en Colombia, 1850-1925. In Economía Colombiana del siglo XIX. Primera edition. A. Meisel Roca and M.T. Ramírez, eds. Pp. 260-1. Bogotá: Banco de la República.
Donor Notes: Defense of the New Granadan government's grants of its public lands in order to satisfy its foreign debt creditors by JM Plata, minister of Hacienda. - J.L.H.

Subject(s): Land grants -- Colombia
Public lands -- Colombia
Debts, External -- Colombia
Added Entries: Cover title: Tierras baldias
"Opusculo formado por una serie de articulos publicados en "El Tiempo" en noviembre i diciembre de 1855 i enero de 1856, i escritos por Jose Maria Plata, encargado de aquella negociacion."

Type: Pamphlet
Language: Spanish
Format: JPG
PDF - Color
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: P01718
Record Number: 291
Islandora ID: islandora:8806