Viesca to Eduardo Muzquiz, December 8, 1865

[Translation.]

Office of the Governor and Military Commandant of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza.

I have the honor to inform you, that you may bring it to the knowledge of the citizen President, that the decree of the 8th of November last has this day been ordered to be circulated in the State, in which decree the supreme government declares citizen Jesus Gonzales Ortega responsible for having voluntarily resigned the office of president of the court of justice, and gone to reside in a foreign land, without a license from the supreme government; and he is also declared responsible for the crime of abandoning the flag and cause of his country while a general in the army; and, in conformity with laws of congress and his full powers, he has appointed a president of the supreme court, for the purposes above mentioned.