1822 voluntary loans and donations

On 16 April 1822 the Regency authorized, through the Provincial and City Councils, a system to accept, throughout the Empire, voluntary donations and loans to help pay for the needs of the Army and other emergencies of the State. The Intendants would distribute in the Provincial and City Councils, notes (billetes ó cédulas) signed by their hand, and for various values, the smallest being for ten pesos and the largest for two hundred pesos^{Gazeta del Gobierno Imperial de México, Tomo II, Núm. 29, 27 April 1822}.

We know of notes issued in San Luis Potosí for a loan and a donation. 

Loan

This is signed by Ignacio López Rayón, the former President and State Treasurer of San Luis Potosí. 

Ignacio López Rayón was born on 31 July 1773, in the town of Tlalpujahua, Michoacán. Educated as a lawyer, during the War for Independence he served as Miguel Hidalgo’s chief of staff until Hidalgo’s capture. López Rayón then served as the official head of the insurgency, as President of the Supreme Junta of the National Government from 1811 until the September 1813 Congress of Chilpancingo.  During ths time he authorised a issue of vales, Mexico's first paper currency. Rayón surrendered to the Royalists on 7 January 1817 and was condemned to die. Fortunately, he survived and was released during a general pardon in 1820. Rayón went on to serve as the State Treasurer of San Luis Potosí. He died on 2 February 1832, at the age of 58, in Mexico City.

Donation

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