Note XXX-29 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.

One on pastorals; another required the archbishop's appointments of parish priests to be previously submitted for confirmation to the chief of the state. La Tertulia Patriótica, no. 4. By law of Nov. 8, 1824, the clergy were deprived of their privilege to import goods free of duties; another of June 9, 1826, reduced the tithes to one half. El Liberal, no. 36. Others of May 3, and June 9, 1826, gave natural children the right to inherit either extestamento or abintestato, and those of ordained priests and professed nuns were placed in the same category; one forbidding, Sept. 1, 1826, the prelates of religious orders to recognize obedience to or hold relations with their respective generals in Spain; and finally, the famous decrees of June 10 and July 20, 1826, forbidding the admission into convents or nunneries of persons under 23 years, or to profession any under 25. Marure, Bosq. Rev. Cent. Am., i. 244-6; Guat., Gaceta, Feb. 16, 1856; Squier's Cent. Am., 265-7.