Causa: Pedro, a San Diego neophyte (then a presidiario at SF), stole objects from Sra. [Josefa?] Villela's house (15 June); apprehended by Alf. M. G. Vallejo; fiscal José Sánchez asked 6 mo public works. Asesor Gómez rebukes the fiscal for basing the penalty not on any cited law but on 'una larga lamentación de la ignorancia de los indios' and on blaming the Missionaries for the punishments inflicted on Indians 'á vista ó tolerancia de las autoridades'; Gómez sides with the defender, recommends 3 yrs presidio (concurrent w/ the SF term) + a 'severa reprensión'; Gov. Victoria confirmed (2 Oct). ⭐⭐⭐ The dossier quotes fiscal José Sánchez's extraordinary anti-mission diatribe in full — the missions 'el atrocísimo sistema de misiones por la fuerza,' neophytes 'cuasi-esclavos,' flogging 'el castigo favorito de los misioneros,' a 'sistema despótico contra todas las leyes de un país libre' — a raw secularization-era critique (quoted *disapprovingly* by Gómez). → Expanded Entry E. Orig. pp.182–235.
| Date | 1831-08-27 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Gov. Manuel Victoria (fiscal José Sánchez) |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LXIX–LXXVII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 182–235 |
| Savage copy page | 236–239 |
| Scan leaf | n241–n244 |
| Document type | verbatim/criminal |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Gov. Manuel Victoria (fiscal José Sánchez), Monterey, 1831-08-27, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LXIX–LXXVII, 182–235, Archives of California, C-A 19, 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 LXIX–LXXVII]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/ca19/ca19-d152.html