Estatutos de la Asociación de Belgrano.

Estatutos de la Asociación de Belgrano. (... ) Buenos Aires. Imprenta del “Porvenir”. 1873.

Quarto, (22 x 14 cm / 8.66 x 5.51 in), 26 pp., Includes Title page, blank. Good copy, preserved in a modern folder with gilded titles.

Constitutive act and statutes of the Neighborhood Association of the town of Belgrano, created in 1855. This institution was born in 1873 at the initiative of one of its neighbors, the lawyer José Francisco López. That same year, in the vicinity and within the Belgrano district, the new town of Saavedra was founded. The current neighborhood of Belgrano, was in 1880 the seat of the national government, after the uprising of Carlos Tejedor.

Some time before, in 1871, that town built on the outskirts of Buenos Aires served as a seat for many porteños who left their city before the scourge of yellow fever. In that exodus was the jurist José Francisco López, with a long career in the profession and outstanding management of him as an official of the Argentine Confederation; in 1860 he had been appointed secretary of the Argentine Legation in Paris and London, seconding Juan Bautista Alberdi. The truth is that, in Belgrano, he carried out many of his ideas aimed at the development of the different municipalities through the creation of neighborhood associations, opposed "to leadership, disorder, misrule and abuses." The initiative advanced like a beacon destined to illuminate the development of all the towns of the campaign. We present here a founding form of that institution.

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