'Sobre pocas existencias en la Misión' — the mission has very few/no existencias for its fomento

'Sobre pocas existencias en la Misión' — the mission has very few/no existencias for its fomento; the seeds insufficient for even 2 months; lack of tools (aradores, palas, hachas, herramienta de carpintería y fragua); the few neophytes at work; the ranchos 'en el estado de desnudez'; asks direction; Micheltorena's marginal reply (15 May) authorizing selling caldos, buying tools on credit, distributing to the S. Luis & Pala Indians, sending a nominal relation of quantities distributed — a vivid mission-decay/secularization-administration document

Date	1843-05-6 (year)
From	José Joaquín Ortega
To	Gob. Micheltorena
Place	Mission San Luis Rey
Series	Departmental State Papers, Benicia
Tomo	II (Miscellaneous) (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo page	p.1083–1084
Savage copy page	162–164
Scan leaf	n162–n164
Document type	abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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How to cite this document

José Joaquín Ortega to Gob. Micheltorena, Mission San Luis Rey, 1843-05-6, Departmental State Papers, Benicia, II (Miscellaneous), p.1083–1084, Archives of California, C-A 39, 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 II (Miscellaneous)]

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