Decreto No. 22 de 1876

Abstract

The image presents a news called Decree Number 22 of 1876 (January 20) Whereby the making of salt in the Republic is declared free by the President of the United States of Colombia, in exercises of the authorization given by Article 2 of Law 33 of May 19, 1875 i Considering one that the salt manufacturing monopoly is not in accordance with the principles of economic science nor with the nature of our institutions that want the broadest freedom for the industry 2 that public opinion demands The abolition of that monopoly as a reform of Urgent need 3 that the assembly of the sovereign State of cundinamarca has requested from the government of the union that measure as eminently favorable to the interested parties of this section of the republic i four that the law has already granted the right to compact salt by means of pressure what which establishes a true privilege if we understand freedom to all systems decree Article 1 from the first day of September of this year is free for the industry and the trade of salt the prayer of this matter in any form and the Republic reserves the exploitation of the Gema salt mines and the sale of this and of the water salted in Las Salinas of his property. Article 2 The provisions of the previous article do not include the Salina de Nemocón in which the production of salt will continue on behalf of the nation until the end of the current contract, the room being sold at the prices set in decree number 211 of 1874. Article 3 by separate decree will set the price at which they must be sold in the national offices of sale of salt viajua and salt water at its various degrees of saturation in accordance with the authorization contained in article 2 of law 33 of 1875. Article 4 in Las Salinas where all the salt water produced cannot be sold, cauldron salt will be manufactured on behalf of the nation as long as this is convenient for national time Article 5 The land, forests, coal mines, factories, cauldrons, ovens, tools, vehicles, and other nationally owned salt manufacturing elements that exist in the various Salinas will be auctioned off for hard money in a public auction and at the highest bidder. For this purpose, the inventory and evaluation of said elements will be published in the official gazette twice a month. Article 6 the administrators of Salinas will divide the elaboration elements that have been auctioned into lots, consulting the largest concurrence in the bidding and informing the executive power of the division made. These auctions will be carried out with the legal formalities by said administrators and in the presence of the first political authority of the place, but they will not take effect until after they have been approved by the executive branch. Article 7, in the event that there are no bidders, some of the properties that are put up for auction will be leased with the same formalities. Given in Bogotá on January 20, 1876 S. Perez The Secretary of Finance and Development Nicolas Esguerra Published in the Official Gazette No. 3642. On 1/21/76