24Don Nemesio issued an order in 1805 to cut off all communication with
Louisiana, and to prohibit the entrance of foreigners; only fugitive slaves
were to cross the Sabine into Texas. The death penalty was imposed for
the disobedience of this order. In 1806, he re-enforced this order by refusing
petitions to buy needed supplies in Natchitoches, and decreed a policy of
restriction for immigrants from Louisiana, the expulsion of undesirable
immigrants who had entered Texas, and the concentration of colonists at
Villa de Salcedo, Béxar, or further west. Mattie Austin Hatcher, The
Opening
of
Texas,
100, 115-118.
