This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...However, impoverished as the Mission became from year to year, the salary, which the Indians had to pay him before they could think of securing any of the fruits of their labors for themselves and their families, was necessarily felt to be an unjust burden. In this case, it was not the fault so much of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...However, impoverished as the Mission became from year to year, the salary, which the Indians had to pay him before they could think of securing any of the fruits of their labors for themselves and their families, was necessarily felt to be an unjust burden. In this case, it was not the fault so much of the administrator as of the hireling system, which had been foisted upon the hapless neophytes by the Pio Pico crowd. Furthermore, Argiiello seems to have looked somewhat to profit in addition to his salary, and this, too, created much dissatisfaction. Now we can understand what follows. On April 8, 1839, Jose Delfin, an Indian neophyte of the Mission, on behalf of all his fellow neophytes, charged the administrator, Santiago Argiiello, with wasting and misapplying the mission effects, in consequence of which the Indians, tired of working without benefit to themselves, were deserting. He claimed that the administrator cultivated fields for himself with Indian labor; that he put his brand on the best horses; and that he bought animals with the mission brandy. Thereupon the sixty Indians remaining at work, demanded an administrator who was just and who had not so large a family. 4 Cal Arch., St. Pap., Missions, vol. vi, pp. 32-33. Bancroft Collection. The last clause will be better understood, if the reader bears in mind that Santiago Argiiello had not only twenty-two children, but relatives also whom likewise the Mission was expected to maintain.5 Governor Alvarado directed the lately appointed inspector of the missions, William Hartnell, to investigate the charges. Hartnell arrived at San Juan Capistrano, after visiting San Luis Rey, about the middle of June, 1839. On June 24, he reported to Alvarado that San Juan Capistrano owed to various individuals $1,600...
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