Monterey buildings in ruin — church + other buildings

Monterey buildings in ruin — church + other buildings; '10 years of work by troops, Indians, and vecinos useless' due to haste/fragility; must rebuild from scratch. Also: 64 arrobas gunpowder missing from Monterey battery

Date	1804-03-11 (exact)
From	Arrillaga
To	Viceroy
Series	Provincial State Papers
Tomo	XXI
Original tomo page	p.xxi.146–8
Savage copy page	—
Scan leaf	n58
Document type	abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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Arrillaga to Viceroy, 1804-03-11, Provincial State Papers, p.xxi.146–8, Archives of California, C-A 14, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Correction to this entry.

Previously read place: ''; date_text: '1804-03-11'; savage_page: '—'; summary: "Monterey buildings in ruin — church + other buildings; '10 years of work by troops, Indians, and vecinos useless' due to haste/fragility; must rebuild from scratch. Also: 64 arroba…"; omissions: a document on the leaf carries no catalogue record. Leaf n58 (IA 168036075_79_16_2), printed stamp 59 with pencil 59. Heading: '+ 1801 - Mzo 11 - Loreto. / Arrillaga al Virrey de Mex. / (4 Docs) - pp. 146-8 -'. DATE: the year is 1801, not the catalogued 1804 - confirmed twice on the leaf ('Feb.o 11 - 1801 - ejecucion de Rosas p.r brutalidad y quema del cadaver de la mula') and corroborated by the neighbouring entries on n59 ('1801 - Abril 9 - Loreto', '1801 - Abril 21 - Loreto'), the first of which the catalogue itself dates 1801. PLACE: 'Loreto' is in the heading; the record has no place anywhere (place: '', places: [], date_text has none). SAVAGE_PAGE: recorded as an em-dash although the leaf bears stamp 59 (printed) and 59 (pencil); the same volume's later records (ca14-d415, d497) do record the stamp, so this is not a volume convention. SUMMARY is wrong on three counts: (1) the leaf reads 'el trabajo de 20 anos de la tropa, indios y vecinos, en composturas, construcciones &c es inutil p.r la precipitacion y fragilidad con q.e se hicieron' - TWENTY years, not '10 years' (verified at 2x; the glyph matches the 2 of '22' elsewhere and is not the two-stroke 1 of 'Mzo 11'); (2) the leaf says the works of BOTH presidios must be begun again - 'q.e cree es necesario q.e obras de Mont. y S.n Diego se principien de nuevo y con mas solidez' - the catalogue names only Monterey; (3) the gunpowder clause belongs to a DIFFERENT entry and misstates the unit - the leaf's next entry reads 'Mzo. 12. (4 Docs) - pp. 148-9. / - Remite espediente sobre falta de 64 saquillos polvora, al entregar bateria de Mont. Cabo Jo[se M.a Osorio]' - 64 SAQUILLOS (small sacks), not arrobas, and under 12 March at pp. 148-9, not under this 11 March document at pp. 146-8. OMISSIONS: that 12 March entry (4 docs, pp. 148-9, running from the foot of n58 to the head of n59) has no catalogue record of its own - ca14-d49 is the 9 April entry at p. 149, confirmed by reading n59. ORIG 'pp. 146-8' and author/recipient ('Arrillaga al Virrey de Mex.') are correct.

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