Report of the Visita del Sur de California (fiscal/mining inspection, practiced from 5 June): 3 bandos promulgated at the reales San Antonio / Santa Cruz del Oro / Todos Santos (miners' manifest rules for the Real Casa del Rescate; embarkation-license ban; pulpería *composición* tax); silver-mining laws & annual yields; cattle-brand (fierro/marca) registration & the *real derecho* enforced via Sgt Francisco de Aguiar; merchant price-gouging ('otro arancel que el que les dicta su codicia y la lengua'); vices/vagrants imprisoned (Cayetano Guanambo; incorrigible drunks); Real Hacienda arrears — Antonio de Díez's 1,000-peso obligation (800 overdue, four *tropa* guarantors); land-grant claims (Todos Santos, San José del Cabo missions); accounting confusion & worker-wage (*trabajo personal*) abuses at the reales (Santa Ana, Real del Oro). ⚠ Antigua California (Baja) — tangential to Alta Cal focus but rich fiscal/economic-history; ends n350 (Estrada suspends resolution on ~20 fugitives from Mission Todos Santos pending Fages' decision)
| Date | 1783-07-07 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José María Estrada (comisionado de la visita del Sur de Cal.) |
| To | Fages |
| Place | Loreto (Baja Cal.) |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | IV |
| Original tomo page | p.IV 7–13 (pp 12–17) |
| Savage copy page | 341–347 |
| Scan leaf | n344–n350 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José María Estrada (comisionado de la visita del Sur de Cal.) to Fages, Loreto (Baja Cal.), 1783-07-07, Provincial State Papers, IV, p.IV 7–13 (pp 12–17), Archives of California, C-A 2, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca2/ca2-d181.html