In Tamaulipas. from 85 to 12. the total number authorized by the 12 States wa* just about onethird the number actually at work in those same States. The State of Tabasco. exceeding even the constitution. prohibited any priest to remain unmarried in that State. Meantime. the Federal Government was not idle. The priests in the federal district and the territories were made to feel the hand of the law. Orders went out for the capture and deportation of every foreign priest In Mexico. They were declaredto be pernicious aliens. Some of them had labored a lifetime in the missions of Mexico.
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Foreign priests are declared to be pernicious aliens.