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Document 254481

PORFIRIO DIAZ
He grants a patent for the invention of a smelting process.
Partly Printed DS: "Porfirio Diaz" as President of Mexico, 1p, 13x19. Palace, Mexico City, 1892 April 18. In Spanish, partially translated. Diaz grants to William Lawrence Austin a "patent of privilege for twenty years, for a perfected procedure of his invention to fuse minerals -- assuring the exclusive right to him to use in all the Republic, his expressed procedure." Countersigned by his Secretary of Public Works. An annexed sheet, in English, states Austin's invention as "Process of Smelting". In 1876, Porfirio Diaz overthrew President Lerdo de Tejada and was elected President of Mexico, serving from 1877-1880 and 1884-1911. His administrations were marked by peace and material prosperity with foreign investment but also by dictatorial methods. There was little improvement in the lives of the peasants and Diaz was finally forced to resign in a revolt led by Francisco Madero. Diaz died in exile in Paris in 1915. 2½-inch paper seal affixed at lower left corner. Folds, shaded at folds, lightly soiled. Vertical fold touches the "P" and first "r" in Porfirio. 2½-inch separation at left blank horizontal fold.

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