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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... from the Mexican Government, dated October 6th, 1830, to investigate these charges.8 Victoria from Loreto wrote to Echeandia that he desired to meet him at San Diego, and then proceeded on his journey to the north. Arriving in December or possibly late in November, he was much disappointed at not finding ...
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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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... from the Mexican Government, dated October 6th, 1830, to investigate these charges.8 Victoria from Loreto wrote to Echeandia that he desired to meet him at San Diego, and then proceeded on his journey to the north. Arriving in December or possibly late in November, he was much disappointed at not finding Echeandia there nor a message from him. He therefore despatched a courier to the territorial capital who elicited the reply that the incumbent would transfer his office at Monterey. A later despatch named Santa Barbara. Evidently the wily official was sparring for delay. The reason became known as soon as Victoria had reached Santa Barbara. Instead of Echeandia, to his amazement, a proclamation arrived which declared all the missions of California "secularized." It had been issued at Monterey on January 6th, 1831, long after the notification to turn the office over to his successor who was 2 "Life in California," San Francisco, 1891, p. 108. "CaL Arch.," Sup. Govt. St. Pap. vi, 242-244. "Cal. Arch.," Dep. Rec. viii, 555. Echeandia to Victoria, Nov. 22nd, 1830. Victoria to Echeandia, from Santa Barbara, January 14th, 1831. "Cal. Arch.," Mis. and Colon, ii, 118-119. within the territory. The author prefaced his decree with some high-sounding remarks on the rights of man in general and of the Indian in particular, and justified his action especially with the much abused decree of the Spanish Cortes of September 13th, 1813, which had no binding force in the republic, and which after all, as we have seen, never contemplated anything like the change which the proclamation announced. Echeandia furthermore declared that the plan of emancipation in particuler cases, which had been tried, had resulted in great evils, as well to the...
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