Investigation of Comisario [José Mª] Herrera for misappropriation of public funds + forgery of signatures. Witnesses José de la Guerra, Ignacio Maitorena, Juan Bandini, Romualdo Pacheco, Mariano G. Vallejo, Rodrigo del Pliego. Herrera allegedly mismanaged ~$2,000 + México funds, didn't pay duties on goods sold to an American brig (~$600 lost). The forgery scheme (by Luis Bringas) faked the signature of Capt. William Gale (American frigate *Brooklyn*) on a $2,000 libranza (a Guaymas draft); Gale testified it was false ('he signs *Gale* not *Galle*'). Escribiente Romualdo Pacheco
| Date | 1830-08-05 (events fr. 1827) (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | fiscal Agustín V. Zamorano |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LIII–LXVIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | LXI.754–828 |
| Scan leaf | n247–n250 |
| Document type | transcription |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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fiscal Agustín V. Zamorano, Monterey, 1830-08-05 (events fr. 1827), Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LXI.754–828, Archives of California, C-A 18, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within LIII–LXVIII]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca18/ca18-d234.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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