Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 2 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

CHAPTER XII.--Various changes of the Mexican

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constitution--Present organization of the national and state governments--Constitution of 1847--Legislative and judiciary--National and state--Judiciary--Administration of justice--Civil and criminal process--Mal-administration of justice--Prisons--Crime--Accordada--Condition of prisons--Statistics of crime in the capital--Garrotte--Mexican opinions, 144