Cámaras Nacionales

A couple of Chambers of Commerce issued cheques to alleviate the shortage of small change during the revolution.

Campeche

The Cámara Agrícola Nacional de Campeche produced two series of cheques, printed by a local firm, Imprenta de Joaquín Castro. These were issued by different businesses that had deposited a sum to guarantee them with the Cámara. They had a distinguishing series and signature on the face and the printed signatures of Manuel García Gual as Presidente, G. J[       ]^{[identification needed]} as Tesorero, and [               ]^{[identification needed]} (or, for the second issue, E[     ] Alfaro^{[identification needed]}) as Secretario of the Cámara on the reverse.

Manuel García Gual
G. J[       ]
E[   ] Alfaro
M. Cambranis
D. Hurtado
Vicente Gómez Hernández

Known examples are a 50c cheque dated 22 November 1913 and a series of cheques (5c, 10c, 25c and 50c) dated 20 May 1914.

This was during the Huertista governorship of Manuel Rivera, who had the support of the members of the Cámara Agrícola Nacional as he could maintain order after the upset of Madero.

On 2 February 1914 an editorial in El Diario on the problem of small change reported that it had received letters from Campeche and Ciudad del Carmen about the lack of small change and the depreciation of the vales issued to address it^{El Diario, 2 February 1914}.

It appears that the two issues had a combined total of $34,792, of which $2,525 was never put into circulation.

These notes were withdrawn once the Constitutionalists had taken over and introduced their own currency. In September 1915 the Jefe de Hacienda reported that the Banco Peninsular Mexicano had taken in $11,656 and his own Jefatura had collected $19,034. These, together with the unissued $2,525, making a grand total of $33,215, were incinerated in the patio of the Aduana Marítima on 13 September 1915. So $1,577 was still outstanding.

Ciudad del Carmen

Ciudad del Carmen is a city in the southwest of the state.

On 7 April 1913 Admiral Caperton reported to the Navy Department on the “invalidation of certain issues of bills signed by Leguna de Terminos”^{Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Mexico, 1910-1929, 812.515/38; 812.00/14812}. This presumable refers to a Ciudad de Carmen issue: Laguna de Terminos is the lagoon behind Ciudad de Carmen.

On 2 February 1914 an editorial in El Diario on the problem of small change reported that it had received letters from Campeche and Ciudad del Carmen about the lack of small change and the depreciation of the vales issued to address it^{El Diario, 2 February 1914}.

The Cámara Nacional de Comercio de Ciudad del Carmen made a similar issue. The known example is a 50c cheque, from Alejandro Zeind, dated 16 July 1914.

Alejandro Zeind