Note I-13 — Chapter I · LAST DAYS OF SPANISH RULE. 1801-1818.
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The American suplentes were lawyers or ecclesiastics seeking preferment at court, or military officers with a long residence there. Alaman, Hist. Méj., iii., ap. 4; Bustamante, Defensa, 16; Dispos. Varias, ii. fol. 10; Zamacois, Hist. Méj., viii. 450-1. The second named proxy in Nov. 1811 gave up his seat to the regularly chosen deputy. Córtes, Diario, 1811, 93.