THE HABILITADO FISCAL CONSTITUTION — the complete legal architecture of the office ('Resoluciones… sobre el manejo de intereses de las Tropas presidiales y volantes'): (a) the 1780 Comandancia resolutions (Arizpe 21 Sep 1780): habilitados may NOT buy on credit, borrow, or obligate the company — creditors recover from the habilitado's OWN goods; quiebra rules (shortfalls made good from Cajas-Reales deposits & his property); art.9–10: shortfall → the habilitado's ARREST + reintegration from his goods; the captain regulates each soldier's & family's weekly ration by individual lista w/ VºBº; ⭐ captains PERSONALLY liable ('la pagará de su propio caudal el Capitán… que por su omisión hubieren dado lugar') for negligently unmanaged soldier debt, inferior goods, or overpricing — penalties up to privación de empleo, the ayudantes inspectores vigilating under the same responsibility; (b) NEVE'S PENINSULAR ADAPTATIONS (Rl. Presidio de Sta Bárbara, 20 Jun 1782, effective 1 Ene 1783): SEMIANNUAL ajustes; the habilitación may not fall on the Comandante (if so, the Alférez intervenes the accounts); semiannual credit/debit relaciones; June + December inventories formed by the habilitado, intervened by the 2º oficial + two company-named apoderados at the cotejo de géneros; annual January cuenta general de fondos per the Reglamento; family-rations set annually by household size/ages, sourced 'en cuanto sea posible' from the Pueblos y misiones [the provincial-economy principle]; debtors relieved 'prudentemente' via the retention fund; the borrador & limpio cuadernos kept current — accounts unpunctual at the Inspector's arrival = 'prueba de omisión y culpable descuido'; delay beyond 8 DAYS at a revista = 'prueba de confusión y mala versación.' Certified from González's original by Fages, Monterey 30 Dic 1782. The statutory frame for every later habilitado case (Sal's 1787 embargo, Herrera, the Mexican-era comisarías) → the Sal papers keystone document
| Date | 1780-09-21 + 1782-06-20 [cert. 1782-12-30] (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Comandancia Gral (Croix, per Asesor Galindo; cert. Antonio Bonilla) + Felipe de Neve; final cert. Pedro Fages |
| Place | Arizpe / Sta Bárbara / Monterey |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | III |
| Original tomo page | p.91–225 |
| Savage copy page | 92–113 |
| Scan leaf | n94–n116 |
| Document type | verbatim |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Comandancia Gral (Croix, per Asesor Galindo; cert. Antonio Bonilla) + Felipe de Neve; final cert. Pedro Fages, Arizpe / Sta Bárbara / Monterey, 1780-09-21 + 1782-06-20 [cert. 1782-12-30], Provincial State Papers, III, p.91–225, 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-d65.html