Note XXX-27 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.
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Under the former régime books objectionable to the church, for sustaining liberal ideas on social or religious topics, were placed, by a decree of the national assembly of Oct. 16, 1841, in the list of the forbidden; and the church was authorized to proceed against them. Guat., Recop. Ley., iii. 286-7.