Foundation Certificate of Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
 
In The Name of God Almighty ... I, Diego de Montemayor, on behalf of His Royal Highness Don Felipe Our Lord, I founded the Metropolitan City next to a great mountain and a waterholes called Santa Lucia ... And it has to entitle and intitle Metropolitan City of Nuestra Señora de Monterrey ... and in faith and testimony of truth and grant founded in Extremadura Valley, Ojos de Santa Lucia... Jurisdiction of the New Kingdom of Leon in twenty days of the month of September 1596 ...

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